Awards
Winner, Carlos Fuentes Prize, 2019
Synopses & Reviews
Review
"'Make way dudes' indeed! Before Kathy Acker, before Patti Smith, before Angela Carter, there was & still is Luisa Valenzuela. Deathcats is a prescient fever dream against the new millennium, a take no prisoners satire, a sardonic after midnight liturgy. 'A crematory oven in the middle of Times Square?!' Dudes. Here come the grievances..."
— Richard E. Nash, former publishing editor, Soft Skull
Review
"Luisa Valenzuela's books are our present, but they also contain much of our future."
— Julio Cortazar, author, Hopscotch
Description
"Luisa Valenzuela is the heiress of Latin American fiction. She wears an opulent, baroque crown, but her feet are naked."
— Carlos Fuentes, author, Aura, The Old Gringo