Book
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The savage detectives
Call Number
- FICTION BOLA (CEN)
Edition
1st American ed.
Publication Information
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Physical Description
577 p. ; 24 cm.
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Summary
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 Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight and twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run. This novel follows Belano and Lima through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa, tracing 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.