The Savage Detectives

Bolaño's longest novel and perhaps his most alive. Over six hundred pages following Ulises Lima and Arturo Belano across Mexico, Europe, and Africa in search of the poet Cesárea Tinajero. The trick is that the search matters less than the testimonies of the fifty witnesses who speak about them: a mosaic of voices portraying a generation of Latin Americans who believed in something and watched it dissolve. Demanding, but one of those books that transforms.