I’d characterize Mira Corpora as a seduction. It heightens the pulse and warps the mind with the allure and cliffhangers of a sexy action flick.
Awake to both the subtly human and bitterly hysterical faces of contemporary life
Under This Terrible Sun – Carlos Busqued
Stoner culture and noir, when both are at their best, are experiments in mood and atmospherics.
The Currency of Paper – Alex Kovacs
The Currency of Paper is certainly a novel of ideas, albeit in a more literal sense.
Whether the book does succeed in being comforting or in making its readers happy — depends perhaps upon the reader’s tolerance for Schadenfreude
Lotería – Mario Alberto Zambrano
Fiction is never real, but good fiction is always true.
In Times of Facing Light – Eugen Ruge
Like an overcrowded social gathering where one is forced to meet many people on a superficial level, the book offers little insight into the motivations, incentives, and desires of its characters.
The weight of ambivalence is greater than any final oath.
But what, exactly, is man in the middle between?
Connections that arise not out of the expression of meaning, but from the feeling of not quite being able to fully communicate anything.