"A magically beautiful book about an artist, a gentle reflection upon the melancholy of aging and the unsettling sensation that the world must gradually disappear."
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Frankfurter Neue Presse
“Disarmingly tender and feverishly sad, Gardel’s love story is a delirium of a novel that reminds its readers of an uncomfortable truth: that even a life of regret can be a beautiful one.”
Patrick Nathan, author of Some Hell and The Future Was Color