Plunge into this work with an open mind and know that you're going to be reading the work of a man who probably loves books and literature more than anyone else on the planet. If you have any feeling for books and literature yourself, you're going to fall in love with this work. The tremendously touching characters in Enrique Vila-Matas's novels–who stumble from one place to the next, not really sure where they are going, but always on a quest–are so deeply comical on the one hand, and so deeply poignant on the other, that you just have to give yourself up to it because you're in the hands of a master.–Paul Auster
