Los Detectives Salvajes / The Savage Detectives: Spanish-Language Edition of the Savage Detectives

Arturo Belano y Ulises Lima, dos quijotes modernos, salen tras las huellas de Cesrea Tinajero, la misteriosa escritora desaparecida en Mxico en los aos posteriores a la revolucin. Esa bsqueda --el viaje y sus consecuencias-- se prolonga durante veinte aos, bifurcndose a travs de numerosos personajes y continentes, Con escenarios como Mxico, Nicaragua, Estados Unidos, Francia y Espaa, y personajes entre los que destacan un fotgrafo espaol a punto de la desesperacin, un neonazi, un torero mexicano jubilado que vive en el desierto, una estudiante francesa lectora de Sade, una prostituta adolescente en permanente huida, un abogado gallego herido por la poesa y un editor mexicano perseguido por unos pistoleros, Los detectives salvajes es una novela donde hay de todo: amores y muertes, asesinatos y fugas, manicomios y universidades, desapariciones y apariciones.

Los detectives salvajes es la novela que lanz a Roberto Bolao a la fama literaria internacional antes de que 2666 estableciera su reputacin para siempre. El libro gan el Premio Herralde de Novela y el Premio Rmulo Gallegos, y fue uno de los libros del ao para The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times y The New York Times Book Review.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A National Bestseller
New 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 Cesrea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.

The explosive first long work by "the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles Times), The Savage Detectives follows 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.

A polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon, Roberto Bolao 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. The Savage Detectives is a dazzling original, the first great Latin American novel of the twenty-first century.