Karunatilaka's novel breaks with conventional modes of storytelling to reveal humanness in a strange, sprawling, tragic situation. Amid the dryness, satire and weary lamentations on the state of Sri Lanka there is genuine heart to this novel.-Charlie Connelly "New European Review" The most significant work of Sri Lankan fiction in a decade. The result is a thrilling read.-Rebecca Jones "BBC" And as the narrative gathers pace it becomes a whodunnit. But it also gives you a thorough grounding in Sri Lankan politics. With ghosts and spirits in the afterlife, it is part supernatural. Karunatilaka has done artistic justice to a terrible period in his country's history.-Tomiwa Owolade "Guardian" But the novel also recalls the mordant wit and surrealism of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls or Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. The obvious literary comparisons are with the magical realism of Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. Karunatilaka's novel never courts despair.- "Economist"Ī mix of mischievous magic realism and absurdist humour. Comic, macabre, angry and thumpingly alive.
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