“Surprising symbiosis between matter and form. Pedro Mairal is my personal discovery of this publishing year.”
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El País
“Lebedev’s prose is lyrical as a rule: cast in assonant patterns, attentive to rhythmic weight, responsive to the habits and desires of language. Antonina W. Bouis’s translation is both faithful and inspired, spinning the story out in a tirelessly beautiful English.”
The Los Angeles Review of Books