Gabriela Torres Olivares

The stories of the Mexican writer Gabriela Torres Olivares close all the windows and doors, not because she doesn't want you to see out of them but because she'd rather have you look inside.

Nothing that human beings do surprise Torres Olivares, yet her stories are most surprising. She uses every body part to construct her characters and then plays with them until they become more human than her reader could ever have imagined.

When I read her stories I've never read anything like them. Some of her stories are medical examinations of literature itself.

The book is Enfermario. I'm reading it now, I'm reading it many years from now.