Enrique Vila-Matas is widely considered to be one of Spain's most important contemporary novelists. His work has been translated into 30 languages and has won numerous international literary prizes, including the Herralde Prize, the Prix Médicis étranger and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. Vila-Matas' books have been longlisted (Montano) and shortlisted (Dublinesque) for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and Never Any End to Paris was a finalist for the US Best Translated Book Award.
"A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel"
"Arguably Spain’s most significant contemporary figure"
New Yorker
"The tremendously touching characters in Enrique Vila-Matas’s novels who stumble from one place to the next, not really sure where they are going, but always on a quest are so deeply comical on the one hand, and so deeply poignant on the other, that you just have to give yourself up to it because you’re in the hands of a master."
"Playful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists"
"Vila-Matas’s bouncy prose is the highlight of this lively ride through a writer’s mind."
Publishers Weekly