"He is by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time."

Ilan Stavans - Los Angeles Times

"Bolaño wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own."

Francisco Goldman - The New York Times Magazine

"Bolaño's reputation and legend are in meteoric ascent."

Larry Rohter - The New York Times

"The most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world."

Susan Sontag - Times Literary Supplement