ARGONAUT BOOKS

New Years 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. Reviews This novel is an elegy for a generation.IndependentThe comic frenzy, the inventiveness of character and situation, and the mood-soaked depiction of 1970s Mexico is delightful.Times Literary SupplementIt's no exaggeration to call Bolaño a genius. The Savage Detectives alone should grant h...Read More