The narrative escalates, the mystery deepens, and the scope of the story widens with each page ... Terrific Khaled Hosseini, Books of the Year, on The Sound of Things Falling One of the most original new writers of Latin American Literature Mario Vargas Llosa A masterful writer Nicole Krauss Vasquez is one of the great revelations of recent years J. A. Masoliver Rodenas, La Vanguardia Where Carver abandons his Hopper-like silhouettes, Vasquez rescues them Miguel Silva, Gatopardo In the architecture of the collection one thinks of what Tobias Wolff said, quoted in the afterword by Vasquez: A collection of novellas should be like a novel in which the characters do not know each other ... There are literary echoes of Madame Bovary, David Copperfield, Georges Perec ... A major name to follow Le Figaro