Wild Detectives

For the first time in Russian.
One of the most famous novels by Roberto Bolaño.
The author explores the connection between literature and violence in a world where national borders are fluid, and a true poet always stares death in the face.
In... 2007, the magazine "Semana" ranked "Wild Detectives" third in the list of "Greatest Novels in Spanish Published in the Last 25 Years." The first place on the list goes to another Bolaño novel - "2666."

New Year's Eve, the mid-70s. Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of visceral realism, an avant-garde literary movement, head into the Sonora desert in search of a mysterious and forgotten poetess. The sinister events that follow turn their expedition into a flight that does not end even twenty years later. Their journey takes them through Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. Whoever they encounter, the rejected writers change the lives of their temporary companions forever. This is an odyssey through a dark Universe, told by dozens of different voices, whose testimonies weave into a single epic of the incredible journey of two people obsessed with art.
Roberto Bolaño, a true heir to Borges and Pynchon, narrates a world where poetry is like a curse, and the connection between literature and violence is incredibly close. "Wild Detectives" is an incredibly original text, the first great Latin American novel of the 21st century.