“This collection from renowned Argentinean author Di Benedetto (Zama) showcases his short stories’ development from sparse and experimental into melancholic, deeply affecting fables… These stories bolster Di Benedetto’s reputation as a visionary talent, and serve as a worthy introduction to one of Latin America’s most influential writers.” — Publishers Weekly
“[B]lends the fantastic sensibilities of Borges and Kafka with the profound pessimism of Dostoyevsky… Di Benedetto’s view of the world is gloomy, his writing precise and poetic. It’s a winning combination.” — Kirkus Reviews
“an impressive swath of subjects, emotions and perspectives. . . Readers with a love of Latin American authors will find Di Benedetto a welcome addition to the canon that’s available in English.” — Noah Cruickshank, the Field Museum, in Shelf Awareness
“In every story, the Argentine journalist confronts bare suffering with a linguistic precision and a talent for imagery that his translator, Martina Broner, captures effortlessly… Nest in the Bones offers a whirlwind introduction to a writer whose enormous weight in Latin America is finally becoming palpable outside its borders.” — Harvard Review
“Very well translated… displays to perfection…the range of [Di Benedetto’s] experiments with strangeness…Di Benedetto’s characters, with their ‘secret wounds, their isolation and their irony, and above all their lightly masochistic self-irony,’ are companions of those of Svevo, Pessoa and Kafka.” — London Review of Books
“[NEST IN THE BONES is] a sampling of the Argentine’s short fiction… demonstrating an extraordinary experimental and emotional range that Zama—largely confined as it is to the perspective of a single self-centered narrator—could only hint at.” — Public Books
“Di Benedetto has written indispensable pages that have moved and continue moving me.” — Jorge Luis Borges
“One of the greatest Argentinean writers and one of the greatest writers of Latin America.” — Roberto Bolaño
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