Eduardo Halfon
Praise for Tarantula
This novel about a violent and traumatic childhood episode is eerily current – the questions it raises about identity, resistance and history are both deeply personal and universal
Mariana Enriquez
Among [Halfon’s] preoccupations are the legacy of violence and mass murder in Europe and Latin America; the frequency and facility with which the past intrudes upon the present; the quixotic effort to separate famil ...
New York Review of Books (USA)
This taut, magisterial novel explores the possibility of disentangling one's trauma and one's roots
Le Monde des Livres (France)
This novel about a violent and traumatic childhood episode is eerily current – the questions it raises about identity, resistance and history are both deeply personal and universal
Mariana Enriquez
Among [Halfon’s] preoccupations are the legacy of violence and mass murder in Europe and Latin America; the frequency and facility with which the past intrudes upon the present; the quixotic effort to separate famil ...
New York Review of Books (USA)
This taut, magisterial novel explores the possibility of disentangling one's trauma and one's roots
Le Monde des Livres (France)
This novel about a violent and traumatic childhood episode is eerily current – the questions it raises about identity, resistance and history are both deeply personal and universal
Mariana Enriquez
Among [Halfon’s] preoccupations are the legacy of violence and mass murder in Europe and Latin America; the frequency and facility with which the past intrudes upon the present; the quixotic effort to separate famil ...
New York Review of Books (USA)
This taut, magisterial novel explores the possibility of disentangling one's trauma and one's roots
Le Monde des Livres (France)