"This quirky coming-of-age novel by a celebrated young Spanish writer centers on a tender mother-daughter relationship." -- New York Times 'New & Noteworthy' "[B]eguiling . the various characters' deceptions are unveiled skillfully by Hernández as she distorts the reader's sense of reality. This novel is more than it seems." -- Publishers Weekly "A narratively ambitious reflection on art, beauty, motherhood, and identity . A conceptually fascinating book." -- Kirkus Reviews "With [ Prosopagnosia ], Sònia Hernández cements her place as one of the most individual voices of her generation." -- La Vanguardia "In this warm, lively, and intellectual novel, Hernández's greatest achievement is allowing the protagonist to release her trauma in a way that is both simple and true.

" -- Santos Sanz Villanueva, El Cultural "One of the best writers of her generation." -- Inés Martín Rodrigo, ABC "A novel of our times that explores the difficulty of constructing oneself as a person and the chaos of how things seem to happen to us." -- Lluís Satorras, Babelia "A tale of the conflict between reality and deception, and how the many forms of exile and solitude come together. A beautiful, enigmatic novel." -- Enrique Vila-Matas, El País "A reflection on false appearances, assumed identities, the need to invent other lives for ourselves, and the need for art itself." -- Ángel Ortín Pascual, Heraldo de Aragón "As structured and well-articulated as the paintings that inspired it." -- Isabel Gómez Melenchón, La Vanguardia "[D]elivers a serious reflection on the purpose and meaning of literary fiction." -- Domingo Ródenas, El Periódico "For Hernández, plot is just an excuse to articulate her own original ideas about beauty, identity, and exile, and this makes each of her books a declaration of ethical and aesthetic principles.

This novel is not a means but an end in itself: the materialization of her most important themes from life and literature." -- Liliana Muñoz, Criticismo "Sònia Hernández' writing is unsettling and unconventional, marked by a complete independence from the dominant trends of contemporary novels in Spanish." -- Santos Sanz Villanueva, El Mundo "Hernández offers many insights into the value of experience, of travel as personal discovery, and the difficulty of explaining ourselves in our own words. A novel of reflection." -- Suárez Lafuente, La Nueva España.