Review
'The historical reading that springs from a personal conflict, the background of a witchhunt on the outskirts of the Second World War, political fanatism and a secret prowling around in the protagonist's biography, are aspects that maintain the afinity of this novel with 'I Married a Communist', by Philip Roth ' Javier Aparicio, El Pais, Madrid 'A truly magnificent book, luminous, poignant, lucid and intelligent. It has obvious parallels with Schlink's 'The Reader' Vasquez creates a fiction which is complex and allusive, a delicate creation of artifice and ineffable truth.' Frank Wynne, translator of Michel Houellbecq 'Vasquez has created a perfect structure for his novel, the narrative in constant motion, as if interior turmoil were affecting the settings and scenes as they proceed. Each and every one of his characters is memorable' J.A. Masoliver Rodenas, La Vanguardia, Barcelona
Financial Times, May 17th and 18th, 2008
He has written one of this year's outstanding books.
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