New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this Argentian writer to be published in the United States - "a romp through the countryside, where monuments to magical realism, surrealism, hard-boiled detective fiction, and farce will suprise, astonish and regale at every turn." Translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam. 187 pp,. ISBN: 0-679413995.