""Luisa Valenzuela's affecting short stories—parables, really—are cryptic and poetic. Like many Latin American writers, she produces work that verges on the surreal."" New York Times Book Review
|"[She is] the heiress of Latin American literature. She wears an opulent, baroque crown, but her feet are bare."
—Carlos Fuentes
|"Luisa Valenzuela explores the terrain where love and violence, erotic pleasure and death, exist perilously close to each other . . . Valenzuela plays with words, turns them inside out, weaves them into sensuous webs."
—Voice Literary Supplement