"One of literature's most engaging lost young men since Augie March. . . . Hemon can't write a boring sentence, and the English language . . . is the richer for it."
–The New York Times Book Review "A charmingly discombobulated take on life and language. . . . Hemon makes ordinary occurrences read like psychic disturbances."
–The Village Voice "A virtuoso linguist, stylist and social observer . . . Hemon delivers a searing, mordantly funny novel. . . . The angst-ridden, horny, adolescent Balkan he depicts is deeply human, totally irresistible and often hilarious, and by turns culturally specific and universal." –
San Francisco Chronicle "Hemon's fractured story will haunt you long after you want it to, as you slowly realize that just because the last sentence ended with a period, all that was said before continues." -
Chicago Sun-Times