The Savage Detectives

<p>With an afterword by Natasha Wimmer.<br> <br> Winner of the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. Natasha Wimmer's translation of <i>The Savage Detectives</i> was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the <i>Washington Post</i> and the <i>New York Times</i>.<br> <br> New Year's Eve 1975, Mexico City. Two hunted men leave town in a hurry, on the desert-bound trail of a vanished poet.<br> <br> Spanning two decades and crossing continents, theirs is a remarkable quest through a darkening universe - our own. It is a journey told and shared by a generation of lovers, rebels and readers, whose testimonies are woven together into one of the most dazzling Latin American novels of the twentieth century.</p>