"Fuentes does not cease to amaze. This latest work is an uproariously comic novel that deals head on with many of the gravest issues of 21st century Mexico... The reader marvels throughout that the author of this fiercely perspicacious and laugh-out--loud funny novel is in his eighties: Fuentes's familiar wit and breadth of experience are here in spades, but he also packs a high-velocity edginess worthy of a writer a third his age".
- Library Journal, starred review
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