{"product_id":"the-savage-detectives-roberto-bolao-9780312427481","title":"The Savage Detectives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Savage Detectives \u003c\/i\u003eis an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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疵ea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run. \u003c\/p\u003e\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 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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roberto Bola\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0312427484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312427481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/04\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/30\/2008 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/24\/2008 pg. 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/12\/2008 pg. 42\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/26\/2008 pg. 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/23\/2014 pg. 70","brand":"Roberto Bola","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44055225565439,"sku":"9780312427481","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9d338bf8-ead8-40e9-ba50-21b5a677c207.jpg?v=1685034479","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-savage-detectives-roberto-bolao-9780312427481","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}