The Savage Detectives
by Roberto Bolaño
Young poets searching for a lost poet. All get lost.
you've ever been young and hungry and convinced that literature was the only thing that mattered
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Mexico City in the 1970s, a gang of young poets calling themselves the Visceral Realists, searching for a woman poet who disappeared into the desert in 1976. Told through diary entries and interviews spanning twenty years. The most alive novel about what it feels like to be young and literary and broke and certain that beauty is worth chasing into the wilderness. Bolaño's love letter to everyone who ever believed in something reckless.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Mexico • Latin America
- Voice
- Written by a Mexican author
