The False Years

“… a poetic, succinct novel that criticizes the corruption of the Mexican political system, criticizes the negative effects of social and family traditions and offers the reader a balanced inside view of Mexican contemporary life.”
–Los Angeles Times

“Vicens… uses the primal father-son relationship to create an allegorical work haunted by questions of individual mortality and political conflict.” –Publishers Weekly

“In The False Years, the dislocations, the strange blending of personality, the overwhelming presence of ghosts all create a magical fictional environment, one that illuminates Luis’s most tortured question: ‘Do you know what it is to remain at the edge of yourself,’ he asks his father’s shade, ‘just looking at yourself?'”
–New York Times