Álvaro Enrigue appears as a unique writer, referred to as the best storyteller in the Americas. After reading Hypothermia you understand why. This collection of short stories is a daring exploration of the universal themes of loss, love, and identity brought upon the individual by the impersonal forces of modernity. Álvaro’s books bring together opposites, they are at once morbid and celebratory, somber and humurous, historic and very much about the present.