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Praise for My House Is on Fire:
“Stories Kafka could have created.” —Houston Chronicle
“The horrible dislocations in the normal human order are brilliantly and forcefully portrayed in every story in the collection…Dorfman has been called the moral conscience of his country. The stories in My House Is on Fire attest powerfully to both the strength of his witnessing and the imaginative brilliance of his art. These stories have resonance and timeliness, a rare combination that makes them universal; they are political fables in the best sense.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“The voices are assured, heartbreaking, and are bearing witness to an all-encompassing social suffering…Finally, it is the generosity and sadness of My House Is on Fire that stays with the reader, that accepting of what has been done to us, of what we have done to ourselves.” —Washington Post
“Captures the essence of…the conflict between decades of oppression and hopes of freedom…A poetic and conflictive sense of despair and triumph in the narrative voice.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“A fearful and poignancy…Corrosive with ironies and sarcasms about the lives of ordinary people in Chile…Dorfman’s stories are rude only to torturers.” —Newsday
“Of all the Latin American writers to come out of that explosion of creativity familiarly known as ‘el boom,’ Ariel Dorfman is the one whose work I love best…He pushes the outer limits of the fictional envelope as daringly and imaginatively as Julio Cortázar and Gabriel García Márquez…But what makes Dorfman’s books especially appealing is the humanism of his vision.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Dorfman continues to explore the devastated landscape of private life under government: he does so with great subtlety…In [his] hands, the imaginary takes on a sharp and sinister edge…Memorable, remarkable.” —Philadelphia Inquirer