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The Wind That Lays Waste is elegant and stark, a kind of emblem or vision fetched from the far edges of things. Almada burns off all the dross and gives us pure revelation, cryptic and true.

Paul Harding, author of TINKERS

The Wind That Lays Waste (...) The best novel written in Argentina in the last few years? Don’t know, and don’t care, but you must read Selva Almada.

Isaac Rosa, El País

The Wind That Lays Waste is a mesmerizing novel, at once strange and compelling. It has that wonderful quality you see in Alice Munro’s stories, where you think nothing is happening and then, suddenly, you realize that the earth is moving and has been moving for a while.

Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of MOTHERS, TELL YOUR DAUGHTERS

Almada’s prose has a touch of the Faulkner of As I Lay Dying but passed through the filters of the dirty light of the cotton fields and the clean clothes worn by country people to Sunday mass.

Germán Machado

Selva Almada moves about on a map of fiction: this is not urban literature, it is not literature about young people, nor about outsiders, nor about people who spend their time snorting coke. It is a literature of the provinces like that of Carson McCullers.

Beatriz Sarlo

What seems fantastical soon turns hyper-realistic, in a style that is reminiscent of Juan Rulfo or Sara Gallardo.

La Nación

In her realism of magical repercussions, Onetti and the Borges of ‘El Sur’ come together with the inflamed shadow of Horacio Quiroga, yet the quality and resolve of her prose produce a

power of suggestion that is unique to Selva Almada.

Francisco Solano, El País