— Ploughshares
“A beautiful, strange fable. . alternating between frivolity, insight, and horror.”
— Quarterly Conversation
VARAMO
“Aira seems fascinated by the idea of storytelling as invention, invention as improvisation and improvisation as transgression, as getting away with something.”
— The New York Times Book Review
“A lampoon of our need for narrative. No one these days does metafiction like Aira.”
— The Paris Review