PositiveWorld Literature TodayAn Untouched House offers no sides to be on, no causes to fight for other than one’s own survival ... Hermans’s novella is a bleak depiction of the absurdity of war, which knows no winners ... In its relatively short span of pages, An Untouched House paints not only the ugly face of war in all its arbitrariness but also leaves us with a strong sense of misanthropy, where \'[i]f people stopped feeling altogether, the world would be greatly improved.\'
Ricardo Piglia, trans. Sergio Weisman
RaveBookslut\"A classic detective novel only on the surface, Target in the Night has a deeper layer where a tightly woven construct lives, consisting of manifold voices and characters, all brilliantly constructed and interlinked. Piglia shows great mastery in executing what he wants us to think of as \'paranoid fiction\' and wholly deserved the prestigious 2011 Rómulo Gallegos prize for the \'rigorous observation of facts and characters\' and the \'sharpness of [...] language\' of this novel.\
