. . . . "A harrowing, brilliant novel.???The New Yorker.A powerful new novel??? Thorton seems to have wedded his study of such writers as Borges and Marquez with thy his own instinctive gift for metaphor, and in doing so, created his own brand of magical realism???The New York Times.Remarkable??? Deeply inventive??? Thorton has imagined Argentina truly; his inspired fable troubles and feeds our own in" .