Hailed by Spain’s <em>Revista Quimera</em> as one of the top ten Spanish-language novels of the decade, alongside Bolaño’s <em>2666</em>, Vila-Matas’s<em> Bartleby & Co.</em>, and Marías’s <em>Your Face Tomorrow</em>, the many layers of <em>The No World Concerto</em> center around an old screenwriter, holed up in a shabby hotel in order to write a screenplay about his lover, a young piano prodigy who wants in turn to give up music and become a writer, and believes she may be in contact with creatures from another dimension. Shifting effortlessly between realities, <em>The No World Concerto</em> is a delightful and prismatic novel, and the first of A. G. Porta’s books to appear in English, finally joining those of his early writing partner Roberto Bolaño.