The most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world

This may be the most haunting and mesmerising collection I have ever read

A book full of insight for writers and aficionados of South American literature and culture

It is a shame that Bolaño has no more evenings on earth, his unique voice asserting the importance and exuberance of literature will be sorely missed

Bolaño's language, alert and always graceful, his way of constructing narratives that are simultaneously disconcerting, brilliant and infinitely immediate, is a form of resisting evil, adversity and mediocrity

A rich insight in to Dublin

Keret's surreal conceits are couched in a wry, downbeat language...The effect is something like a sorrowful hybrid of Kafka and Donald Barthelme: deadpan on the surface, with a bassnote of discomfort and emotional alienation that makes even the briefest tales snag in the mind...Each piece is at once universal and particular...world-class gems. The translation is brilliant, too

Etgar Keret is the voice of young Israel

One of the greatest short story writers alive

One of the most important writers alive... enchantingly witty

Etgar Keret's extraordinary imagination sets the reader free from slogans and headlines