The Savage Detectives

New Year’s Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, poets and leaders of a movement they call visceral realism, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their mission: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero, who disappeared into the Sonoran Desert (and obscurity) decades before. But the detectives are themselves hunted men, and their search for the past will end in violence, flight, and permanent exile.

In this dazzling novel, the book that established Roberto Bolaño's international reputation, he tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes - the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself - on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. The Savage Detectives is, in the words of El País, "The kind of novel Borges would have written... An original and magnificent book: funny, moving, important".

Author: Roberto Bolano

Publisher: Picador

Released Date: 2007

ISBN: 9780330423069