In The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru, Ignacio Lopez-Calvo rises above the political emergence of the Fujimori phenomenon and uses politics and literature to provide one of the first comprehensive looks at how the Japanese assimilated and inserted themselves into Peruvian culture. Through contemporary writers testimonies, essays, fiction, and poetry, Lopez-Calvo constructs an account of the cultural formation of Japanese migrant communities. With deftly sensitive interviews and comments, he portrays the difficulties of being a Japanese Peruvian. Despite a few notable...

Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has said Fernando Iwasaki's work "delights and instructs all at once; it takes readers on a trip through a fantasy world while forcing them to face, without any fuss, a sinister reality, one dominated by fear."

In Spain's Diario Sur, Alfredo Tajan highlights the book's strangeness, writing that it contains "chilling and wrenching stories of terror, where beasts, ghosts, vampires, incubi and succubi, crimes and enigmas cross over to the fresh breeze of everyday life without having to recur to remote geographies. Iwasaki describes his hells with a rare...

Decia Gonzalo Torrente Malvido, que conocio a fondo el lumpen, que "El Sexto es la mejor novela sobre la carcel en lengua espanola," pero sobre esto y como escribiera Mario Vargas Llosa, "la prision es solo un medio, el decorado que usa Arguedas para representar un drama que lo hostigo toda su vida y que, sin duda, contribuyo a forjar la crisis que culmino con su suicidio: el de la marginalidad." En efecto, sobre el legamo de sordidez de la prision, por donde campan degenerados de toda laya, y donde, por si fuera poco, se disputan enconadas batallas politicas entre apristas y comunistas por...