"A masterful new novel. . . Ingenious. . .Hemon is as much a writer of the senses as of the intellect."
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Washington Post Book Review "Incandescent. When your eyes close, the power of this novel, of Hemon's colossal talent, remains."
-Junot Dfaz, author of
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "Hemon is immensely talented-a natural storyteller and a poet, a maker of amazing, gorgeous sentences in what is his second language."
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Los Angeles Times Book Review "Remarkable, and remarkably entertaining." -The New York Times Book Review "A physical, historical, and pre-eminently psychological journey."
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San Francisco Chronicle "Stunning...[a] vivid novel...wildly palpably real."
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Boston Globe "A measured, clear spotlight of injustice, made all the more eloquent by the prickly humor of the author."
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Los Angeles Times "Hemon's writing sometimes reminds one of Nabokov's...yet the feat of his reinvention exceeds the Russian's."
-James Wood,
The New Yorker "A profoundly moving novel...A literary page-turner that combines narrative momentum with meditations on identity and mortality."
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Kirkus Reviews.