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An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.

Main Author:	Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003.
Other Authors:	Wimmer, Natasha.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Spanish
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Edition:	1st American ed.
Subjects:	Sportswriters > Fiction. Novelists > Fiction. Teenagers > Fiction. Missing persons > Fiction. Mexican-American Border Region > Fiction.

Summary:	An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.
Physical Description:	898 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	9780374100148 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0374100144 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780374531553 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0374531552 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Author Notes:	ROBERTO BOLANO was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the infrarealist poetry movement. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives , received the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. Bolano died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty. NATASHA WIMMER 's translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by The Washington Post and The New York Times .

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