A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixaracs wit and ambition are evident on every page. By comparison most other contemporary fiction seems a little dull and simpleminded. Hari Kunzru author of White Tears and Gods Without Men A debut novel of seduction and madness hate and love set in the world of Argentine academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein Rousseau Nabokov and Bolao Rosa Ostreech a pseudonym for the novels beautiful but selfconscious narrator carries a