"Splendidly ambitious. . . . A brilliant, enthralling spread of storytelling and high-velocity reflections. . . . She is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished."–Susan Sontag
"A madcap wit and a lively sense of the absurd. . . . Filled with ingenious invention and surreal incident."–Marina Warner
"Dubravka Ugresic is the philosopher of evil and exile, and the storyteller of many shattered lives the wars in the former Yugoslavia produced. . . . This is an utterly original, beautiful, and supremely intelligent novel."–Charles Simic