{"product_id":"savage-detectives-9780312427481","title":"Savage Detectives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Ces?rea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe explosive first long work by \"the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time\" (Ilan Stavans, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Savage Detectives \u003c\/i\u003efollows Belano and Lima through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul-mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers-on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real-life literary figures, and random acquaintances. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon, Roberto Bola?o traces the hidden connection between literature and violence in a world where national boundaries are fluid and death lurks in the shadow of the avant-garde. \u003ci\u003eThe Savage Detectives \u003c\/i\u003eis a dazzling original, the first great Latin American novel of the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoberto Bolaño\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealist poetry movement. His first full-length novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Savage Detectives\u003c\/i\u003e, received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. His other books include\u003ci\u003e 2666, Last Evenings on Earth, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBy Night in Chile\u003c\/i\u003e. Roberto Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50575817638162,"sku":"9780312427481","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d27f9f71-99af-4dfd-a7fd-397a880dc9ac.jpg?v=1731988447","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/savage-detectives-9780312427481","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}