Using the real-life female murder spree in northern Mexico's Ciudad Juarez, which Bolaño barely veils to transform into a fictional Santa Teresa, the author engages, as the novel's opening quote from Charles Baudelaire promises, with an "oasis of horror in a desert of boredom."
The dark heart of globalization is circled in five loosely connected parts in the novel - stories of racism, misogyny, exploitation, and murder in response to centuries of humiliation buzz through this fabricating, brilliant text as much as increasingly grotesque literary detective work.
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