"You emerge from this marvelous novel as if from a dream, the mind on fire . . . With a single bound, Gabriel Garcia Marquez leaps onto the stage with Gunter Grass and Vladimir Nabokov, his appetite as enormous as his imagination, his fatalism greater than either. Dazzling."
--THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Garcia Marquez forces upon us at every page the wonder and extravagance of life, while compassionately mocking its effusions; and when the book ends . . . we are left with that pleasant exhaustion which only very great novels provide . . . [Garcia Marquez] makes us feel as if we had survived his century of articulate dreams only to awaken and discover that they must finally all come true."
--THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
"In a beautiful translation, surrealism and innocence blend to form a wholly individual style. Like rum "calentano," the story goes down easily, leaving a rich, sweet burning flavor behind."
--TIME
"Rabassa's translation is a triumph of fluent, gravid momentum, all stylishness and commonsensical virtuosity . . . Garcia Marquez feeds the mind's eye non-stop . . . Like the jungle itself, this novel comes back again and again, fecund, savage and irresistible."
--CHICAGO TRIBUNE BOOK WORLD