“Deftly written, there is much to admire on the page.”
—Fanzine
“The simple, elegant narrative braiding—a paternal recto, a maternal verso—serves as both metaphor for a boy who is of two minds about everything and as a driveshaft, propelling the reader to a too-soon ending in a state of horror bordering on awe.”
—The Rumpus
“Camanchaca is a riddle, a mind game, sometimes maddening but always compelling.”
—The Star Tribune
“As powerful as it is spare, Camanchaca is a raw trip through an emotional wasteland.”
—Shelf Awareness
“The simple, straightforward prose flies across the dry pages exactly as if Zúñiga were driving you across the desert himself.”
—Atticus Review
“An unexpected voice, a new landscape—a sober, risky, unsettling and surprising book.”
—Alejandro Zambra
“The amiable placidity of Camanchaca’s young narrator attests to a safeguarding remoteness that cannot quite suppress a terrible mounting compulsion to confront his family’s past and be released from its burden of secrets. Diligent but lacking the capacity to form judgments, distressed yet detached, I don’t think I’ve come across a more evocative depiction of the painstaking transition from adolescence into the adult world.”
—Claire-Louise Bennett
“Camanchaca is written with austerity and a laconic and fragmented style that is like the shreds through which we are able to catch glimpses of the landscape through the fog.”
—Patricio Pron
