Andrés Barba needs no advice. He has already created a world that is perfectly realized and has a craft that is inappropriate for a writer of his age.–Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Barba is a master of the novella . . . A gorgeous, fully realized collection.–Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
The four novellas in Barba's wonderful and intense new collection share a melancholy sensibility and a yearning, born of persistent loneliness.–Publishers Weekly
The destructive consequences of those obsessions, traced with an almost clinical precision, are the substance of Barba's absorbing, unnerving stories.–Words Without Borders
