“A well-rounded novel in which Reyes once again gives us visceral and poetic prose—beautiful and devastating images, and a literature that is committed to its community.”

“One of the most outstanding voices of new Latin American literature.”

“Dolores Reyes traps the reader in the pages of her new novel, right in Great Buenos Aires where everything is possible, and where the things that are buried don’t ever resurface. Magical poetry, true crime...we’re talking about the next step in Latin American literature that links Mariana Enríquez with Victoria Ocampo...With limited time and space, Dolores Reyes’s novel is able to deliver elegantly executed prose that presents to us a universal catalog of inequalities. At times dark, at others distant, but always passionate, Dolores Reyes’s writing hovers on the edge of horror in order to demonstrate that the most poisonous thing of all is the earth on which reality walks.”

“Miseria is a noir novel of intrigue and adventure that reminds us of series like True Detective and The Sinner. It is divided into three parts, written in first person, and alternates between the voices of Misery and Eartheater with short texts of excellent oral register...With the focus on violence, femicide, and poverty, Eartheater’s story gives a voice to characters from peripheral zones that are always set aside from large urban centers. With a particular style that is direct and at the same time appeals to the universal, the book becomes a powerful homage to victims of all kinds of inequality.”

“Through literature, [Reyes] has paved a powerful path that allows us to talk about the scourge of femicides ravaging the world using symbolic universes that are as suggestive as they are feminine. Earth, magic, and the traditional knowledge of divination substitute scientific and forensic methods in this infinite metaphor.”

“Reyes’s novels have a strong class component (...) Reyes paints a portrait of youth in popular sectors, including femicide and the omnipresent fear of femicide, which is conjured through solidarity between peers that is genuine and elemental.”

“Tremendously violent and relentless. (...) Fantasy and thriller meet in this elegant novel.”