RaveLos Angeles TimesA challenge even to a reader familiar with Ariel Dorfman’s highly charged work ... Sophisticated and complex ... The sense of menace increases with each inconclusive sentence ... The bleak message of the novel will seem both inevitable and inescapable.
Rachel Ingalls
RaveLos Angeles TimesIngalls\' spare and elegant novel owes practically nothing to its predecessors ... The tone of the novel deepens into a psychological study of these two people and the subtle and complex ways in which the exotic environment works upon each of them ... Even as the mood darkens, Ingalls\' style maintains the wry grace of a sophisticated romance, a control guaranteeing that the denouement will not only be inevitable but astonishing.
