<p>“Composed like a feverish fairytale, <i>Albina and the Dog-Men</i> is a South American parable of self-acceptance and belonging that is fueled by prurience and colored with vivid, hallucinogenic details.… No moment of Jodorowsky’s book is at all predictable or familiar, and those who have a taste for the uncanny will be in awe over its undulations into strange, even godly, territory. The sensuality of the prose thickens as Albina’s situation becomes more tenuous, resulting in heady and appealing constructions.… As Albina and her followers traipse over barren lands and into forests protected by ancient Incans, the novel winds toward territory both magical and needfully human. The surreal methods of redemption in the novel’s final pages prove both glorious and moving. Jodorowsky’s is a work of unforgettable weirdness, a work whose movements are directed by sometimes violent mysticism and whose final lessons may speak to all who have ever dreamed of transformation.”<br /><br /><b>—Michelle Anne Schingler, </b><b><i>Foreword Reviews, </i>Five-Star Review</b></p>

<p>“An imaginative mythology from the incomparable Alejandro Jodorowsky… Like Alejandro Jodorowsky himself, <i>Albina and the Dog-Men</i> seems to be all imaginable things at once.… The language is instantly visual, and Alfred MacAdam’s deft translation is whimsical and fantastic without drifting into adolescence. <i>Albina and the Dog-Men</i> is the product of an unfathomable, affecting imagination.”<br /><br /><b>—Benjamin Russell, </b><b><i>Americas Quarterly</i></b></p>

<p>“To read Alejandro Jodorowsky’s <i>Albina and the Dogmen</i> is to careen through a surreal landscape on a mythic roller coaster…. [Jodorowsky] deftly pairs the beautiful and the strange, the ugly and the lovely, the bodily hideous and the purified holy. His prose is poetic.... His precision is captivating. A translated work can sometimes suffer from dryness, but Alfred MacAdam has done a masterful job preserving Jodorowsky’s insane clip.... It’s fantastic.... Crude and clever, beautiful and weird, read Jodorowsky if you want to feel like you’ve run a marathon through a fever dream."<br /><br /><b>—Christina Kloess, </b><b>Chicago Review of Books</b></p>

<p>“Is there a more thrillingly warped visionary artist working today than Alejandro Jodorowsky? ….Featuring a dwarf, an irascible woman, Incan iconography, and a search for a magical elixir hundreds of years in the making, the plot is pure Jodorowsky. It is psychedelic and weird in the best possible way — where else could you find a werewolf-type plot that manages to be a deep examination of desire and spirituality?... Jodorowsky’s madcap fantasy novel … [shows] that despite featuring talking parrots, albino strippers, and giant hares, <i>Albina and the Dog-Men</i> actually has a lot to say about things like hope, depression, and the power of love.”<br /><br /><b>—Manuel Betancourt, </b><b>Remezcla</b></p>

<p>“Alejandro Jodorowsky needs no introduction.… [<i>Albina and the Dog-Men</i> is] characteristically indescribable.… Freedom from limitations is something I really appreciate in [Jodorowsky’s] work. Most writers distinguish between genres, moods, and tones, but [he] puts it all together and pushes it out there.… <i>Albina</i> contains thousands of ideas, or at least hundreds of ideas. On every page, there’s a new idea, and then another.”<br /><br /><b>—Daniel Kalder, <i>Los </i><i>Angeles </i><i>Review </i><i>of </i><i>Books</i></b></p>