“Those who know about the subject understand that environmentalism without politics is merely gardening. What Antonio Sánchez Gómez does with Derrotero is that and more: he takes direct action with writing as his weapon. Each fact that he mentions, each character, each martyr and victim identified with name and last name, and each location all exist in the effective reality. They are incorporated into fiction with the historical respect that militancy and compromise deserve.”

“In the form of a diary, Derrotero narrates the 20 transformative days in the life of a bomb-throwing environmentalist who escapes from a cellphone-carrying Fitzcarraldo, gambles with malaria, and is wounded by a landscape that is condemned to extermination because wealth is his greatest misery.”

“The novel accompanies four environmental defenders through a jungle journey plagued with difficulties and risks. It’s fiction—but not completely. (…) In Derrotero, the frustrations of real life cross into fiction.”

“Derrotero—an amphibious text that is tailor-made for the territory it travels through and a hybrid between fiction and non-fiction—superbly bears witness to a current reality plagued by dangerous, exterminating forces (...) This book, which is without a doubt urgent, seems to stir up a rallying cry for inventing new ways of narrating or finding ways out—at least provisional ones—of the total destruction of the world we live in.”