The Savage Detectives A Novel Farrar Straus And Giroux 2013 Roberto Bolao by Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer (translation) 9780374191481, 9781466804852, 0374191484, 1466804858 instant download after payment.

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano & 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; 20 years later Belano & 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, LA Times), The Savage Detectives follows Belano & Lima through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, & 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; & assorted hangers-on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real-life literary figures, & random acquaintances.
A polymathic descendant of Borges & Pynchon, Roberto Bolaño traces the hidden connection between literature & violence in a world where national boundaries are fluid & death lurks in the shadow of the avant-garde. The Savage Detectives is a dazzling original, the 1st great Latin American novel of the 21st century.
Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile & Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealist poetry movement. His 1st full-length novel, The Savage Detectives, received the Herralde Prize &  the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. His other books include 2666, Last Evenings on Earth, & By Night in Chile. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at age 50.