Bizarro fiction is not a genre its a disturbing variant that hides a vague threat that leaves the reader feeling something between awe and unease In his first book Toms Downey is an expert in this type of story cursed childhoods fantastical plants sudden deaths cruel plagues Via the most brutal realism and the most surprising fantasy the stories inAc el tiempo es otra cosareveal a strange world and a solid storyteller who writes with remarkable control but is capable of moments of intense madnessMariana Enrquez author ofOur Share of NightandThe Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Toms Downey always surprises with his stunning imagination his ability to create worldsin miniature as maddening and solid as ours his power of observation with spare prose thatis at once ambiguous and disturbing with an inquiry into what we are and how we relate toone anotherLuciano Lamberti
an amalgam of realist science fiction thats more plausible than reality with touches of comedy and nightmareDaniel GigenaLa Nacin
The reader moves through discomfort cheery complicity a certain revulsion and ongoingunease silently perceiving that what happens here in the stories inEl lugar donde mueren los pjarosposes questions from a place that suspends all answers A precise and controlled style intelligent and original plots in which more is shown than said and an effective use of narrative tension are some of the reasons its worth visiting this literary universeLaura CardonaLa Nacin
Toms Downeys genius lies precisely in the fact that hes never talking about other worlds not even metaphorically This is our world only shifted a millimetre to the right shaken ever so slightly but oursMunir HachemiCuadernos hispanoamericanos