"[Gallardo] shines as a compassionate storyteller." — The National
 
"[Land of Smoke] is a haunting cornucopia of the strangest fare Southern South America can possibly offer." — Agustin Pico Estrada, Bookanista

"Land of Smoke is my favourite book by one of my favourite Argentinian authors." — Samanta Schweblin, Man Booker International Prize shortlisted author of Fever Dream

"Land of Smoke dazzles in its highly personal language... glowing with the most absolute desperation and the fierce joy of discovering, capturing and sharing the glory of one's experiences." — Leopoldo Brizuela

"Someone who wears different coloured glasses to everybody else." — Mercedes Halfon

"A wonderful collection. It reads like a selection from a lifetime’s work." — 1stReading (blog)

"Sara Gallardo's work possesses such radical originality it would be most appropriate to categorize it with the kind of literature that doesn't seem like anything else, that doesn't even fit the canon of the established heterodoxy, and that will always be read as a discovery." - Martin Kohan