This authors stories travel all around the world, going from highly populated cities to the pampas, deserts, and waste lands around which his characters wander, get lost, hide and run away. Above all, they find themselves searching endlessly; even if most of the time they dont know for what although its very probable that they are looking for themselves. Bolaos stories take place in a time which he invented, in which the most everyday situations are tinted with a dream-like halo that transforms them into unsettling mysteries, in which the strangest plots unfold with such tranquillity that they seem the most normal thing in the world.