Books like The Savage Detectives
Two young poets in 1970s Mexico City search for a vanished avant-garde poet, and their quest becomes an odyssey across decades and continents.
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The Spirit of Science Fiction
Two young Mexican writers discover science fiction in the 1970s, and the genre becomes a lens for exile, ambition, and the strangeness of being alive.
Amulet
Hiding in a university bathroom when the army storms the campus in 1968, an Uruguayan poet in Mexico City remembers the young poets she mothered and begins to see their futures.
The Dog of the South
Ray Midge of Little Rock follows his runaway wife, her ex-husband and his stolen Ford Torino to Honduras, picking up a broken-down con man named Dr. Reo Symes along the way.
Telephone
A paleobiologist whose daughter is slowly losing her mind to a rare disease finds a plea for help sewn into a jacket he bought online and drives into the desert to answer it.
Signs Preceding the End of the World
Makina, who works the switchboard in a small Mexican town, crosses the border to bring her brother home, carrying a message from her mother and a package from the local crime bosses.
The Lost Steps
A New York musicologist travels up the Orinoco looking for primitive instruments and finds a village that has unlearned time, and then has to decide whether to come back.
Moon Palace
In 1969, Columbia student Marco Stanley Fogg inherits his late uncle's library, reads and sells it book by book until he is starving in Central Park, and a job as companion to a rich, blind, cantankerous old man named Thomas Effing leads him to his own family's secrets.
On the Road
Two friends drive back and forth across America in a beat-up car, chasing jazz, girls, and a feeling of aliveness that keeps receding.
The Reivers
An eleven-year-old Mississippi boy and two friends steal his grandfather's car and drive it to a Memphis brothel.
Grey Bees
Sergey Sergeyich, a beekeeper, is one of only two people left in a village in the grey zone between the Ukrainian army and the separatists in Donbas, and in spring he sets off with his hives to find somewhere quiet.
Primeval and Other Times
The village of Primeval, guarded at its four borders by archangels, lives through the twentieth century, from the First World War into the 1980s, as its people and its spirits keep their own time.
Simpatía
A film writer in a collapsing Caracas inherits his father-in-law’s mansion on the condition that he turn it into a shelter for the dogs the exiled middle class has left behind.