"If there is a writer today who challenges every conceivable field, it is Cesar Aira... Once you start reading Aira, there is no stopping him." Roberto Bolaño "Cesar Aira will be the first Argentine to win the Nobel Prize for Literature." Carlos Fuentes "I don't usually read short stories. They usually make me sad because the characters come and go so quickly and it seems like we will never meet them again. But Aira's stories seem like fragments from an ever-expanding connected universe." Patti Smith "Aira evokes a chilly, bittersweet feeling - like a cup of poisoned strawberry ice cream." New York Times "There are two possibilities: either we are faced with one of the most radical poetics of contemporary literature, or it is all one big misunderstanding." Letras Liberas "Aira is a writer who is unstoppable." The Guardian "Each of Aira's literary works - like each of her reading disorders - creates a possible world." Harper's Magazine "Ira's literary importance, like that of many science fiction writers, is that he makes us question the line between reality and fantasy." Los Angeles Review