"Story revolves around two boys in search of a father who is fighting in an undefined war in an undisclosed location. Vagueness replaces precision; imagery takes the place of analysis; and a chaotic tension between past and present preclude a future definition of the characters, who range from perverted old military men to masturbating couples to the narrator who appears to be in search of a sense of order in the midst of chaos"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.