Roberto Bolaño ; translated from the Spanish and with an introduction by Natasha Wimmer.
New York :
Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2008]
xxiii, 648 pages ;
21 cm
"Originally published in 1998 by Editorial Anagrama, Spain, as Los detectives salvajes"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes - the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself - on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. -- from back cover.