Invigorating if not a bit exhausting. NYC invaded by cows, pigs, taxis, tanks. A war on civilization. A revolution in poetry.

This book is to the postmodern latinamerican novel, what One Hundred Years of Solitude is to the Boom. Important, engaging, a must read.

Overwhelming and rejuvenating. I recommend it for fans of the avant-garde. It's a one-of-a-kind book that actually feels more like a series of many books--an epic of sorts. Pastoral was the best section--shepherds causing traffic jams in NY. If you like Peter Handke, Dario Fo, and A. Artaud--you may be up for this book.

Hyperactive book by hyperactive writer. It's a jolt to your senses. The middle section of dialogues is mindblowing in that it captures how people really talk, really think, really dream. I've never seen a book like this one. I'm betting on this one to be a classic.

Library Journal: A hybrid, both linguistically and structurally. Braschi writes beautiful malleable Spanish, playing with word forms in a musical rythmic way--some passages are a tour de force...The book is often exciting, as much as a performance piece as a novel, reflecting the way languages ia actually used. Recommended for Literary, Latino, and feminist collections.

Publishers Weekly: An elevated version of the code-switching half-Spanish, half English that is the daily language of many US born latinos, Braschi's novel is a literary liberation. The interlocutors yo-yo between languages and from subject to subject: writers, films, sex childhood, family and ultimately Puerto Rican artistic expression in New York City. Allusions come helter-skelter, as Fellini, Pee-Wee Herman, Nabokov and even Columbia University Latin Americanist Jean Franco are invoked, celebrated and derided...Braschi's melange of prose and poetry, English and Spanish is admirable for its energy, its experimental format and it insistence on Spanglish as a literary language...Of interest to literary minded bilingualists.

I picked up this novel for course work in Latin American Studies and I couldn't put it down. This piece is so original, stirring and emotionally gripping that I have recommended it to friends and family. You don't have to be a major in Latin American Literature to make the most of this novel. You have to have a sense of humor and fierce concentration. It's a fast talking book, one that will linger in my imagination for a long time to come.