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| Los Detectives Salvajes |
Bolaño, born in Chile, raised in Mexico, lives in Blanes, Spain. Los Detectives Salvajes (Barcelona: Anagrama, 1998) has been translated into German and Italian but not English as far as I know. It's a funny, maybe a bit overlong portrait of some wild and crazy guys looking for a Mexican revolutionary heroine hiding in the Sonora desert. They find her but when they do, she gets killed by some Mexico City thugs who were tailing them. As an allegory of Mexico—corruption and genius and ’60s utopian quests—it has a lot going for it. Some passages are hilarious, some touching and some are mere youthful (or middle-aged?) boasting.
Recommended by Suzanne Ruta.
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