"An innovative, genre-bending exploration of women's agency and the power of silence."-- Foreword Reviews "A striking, clever novel . [on the] meaninglessness of words and the meanings of silence."-- Publishers Weekly Praise for False Calm : "A bold, beautiful book."-- The New York Times "A marvelous chronicle."-- Publishers Weekly " False Calm bears little relation to most travelogues . It's not exploration; it's portraiture."-- NPR " False Calm is fascinating, informative, and ultimately a pleasure to read.

"-- World Literature Today "Style is perfectly suited to subject; Cristoff travels in a land where real meets surreal and curses, superstition, myth, and mysticism are woven into the fabric of everyday life."-- Kirkus Reviews "Personal memoir, travelogue, and history combine in Maria Sonia Cristoff's False Calm , a journey that peels back the layers of the ghostly fog blanketing Patagonia to reveal engrossing complexity."-- Foreword Reviews "Cristoff is far from being just another writer. She is, on the contrary, a magnificent example of a chronicler-essayist narrator: a unique species of those who are possibly on the way to extinction."-- Alejandra Costamagna "Outstanding, fun, insightful."-- Neue Zürcher Zeitung "A brilliant journalistic investigation."-- Denis Scheck, ARD Tagesthemen "Captivating, intelligent, where the silent strength reaches beyond the real at hand."-- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "A marvelous book with literary reportage, possibly one of the best books to come of the hundreds of new translations from Argentinean literature.

"-- Süddeutsche Zeitung "Impressive literary quality. A profoundly disquieting image of the Argentinean Patagonia and beyond."-- Monika Thees, Die Berliner Literaturkritik.