Blue Label

Reviews / Votes

"Like the verbal equivalent of a good whisky, Eduardo Sanchez Rugeles's novel should be savored with an urgency that evokes calmness, read in small sips to avoid wasting any of it, the consummate narrative. All that remains is to put your hands on a copy, raise it like a glass, and drink it down to the last drop." -Rodrigo Blanco Calderon "A high-octane experience, an irreverent assault on the senses that breaks conventions."-Federico Vegas, El Nacional "Blue Label is a dramatic edifice whose inhabitants, one by one, abandon their place within it to seek solitude and oblivion. It is one of the best novels by a young writer I have read in recent times." -Alfonso Molina, author of Ideas of Babel "Sanchez Rugeles has created an uninhibited, adolescent female voice, a character who not only narrates but also provides a rich, raw speech map . . . of a generation whose destiny lies elsewhere." -Alberto Barrera Tyszka, from the Afterword "Blue Label is a wickedly well-written novel, with electric prose that delivers one jolt after another, a subtle and joyful sense of humor, an intoxicating infectiousness, a complex character about whom we want to know everything, and an ending that leaves the reader with a feeling of emptiness or sweet melancholy. It's a book we'll be talking about for years to come."
-Daniel Saldana Paris