The Savage Detectives
Author: Roberto Bolaño
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 poet Cesarea Tinajero, who disappeared into the Sonora desert – and obscurity – decades before. But the detectives are themselves hunted men, and their search for the past will end in….Read More
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