A dark, disturbing novel, from a writer with a profound understanding of a dictatorship's inner workings * The Times * A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power * Times Literary Supplement * A powerful and troubling new novella * Daily Mail * Genuinely haunting and lyrical... memorable and thought-provoking * New Statesman * A suspenceful, bleak comic parable * Observer * The narrative is neat, lucid, written with admirable economy -- Alan Massie * Scotsman * One of the most inspired originals at work today...an astonishing performance, as terrifying as Kafka and as plausible...candid and as black as night, remarkable, alluring... How these pages shimmer with irony and astute observation * Irish Times * Compelling, chilling, bitter little sigh of a novel * Scotland on Sunday * A timely moral fable, then, but a gripping story too. With impressive economy, Kertesz creates enough round characters to populate a novel five times as long * Daily Telegraph * A masterful addition to his other translated novels * Financial Times *
