PRAISE FOR FICTION WORKS BY ROMESH GUNESEKERA

‘Outstanding’ The Sunday Times

‘Gunesekera’s exquisite prose awakens all the senses’ Independent

‘Impressive and quietly devastating … Gunesekera [writes] with a wonderful deftness’ Financial Times

‘Not a word is wasted’ Wall Street Journal

‘One of the most delicate contemporary handlers of English prose’ Spectator

‘A terrific read: pacey, political, moral, atmospheric and yes, definitely romantic’ Independent

‘Gunesekera’s storytelling is languorous, atmospheric, imagistic’ Guardian

‘A beautiful writer, wonderfully atmospheric and remarkably adept at conjuring a sense of place’ Metro

‘Gunesekera… has written an engaging, appealing, universal and hopeful book that not only shows what fiction can do, it shows why fiction is written – and read’ Irish Times

‘[Gunesekera] has a gentle, generous, deceptively light touch and a quiet genius for comic set pieces’ Sunday Times

‘The writing here is powerful – dense, cadenced … perfectly observed’ Daily Telegraph

‘Subtle, poetic and dreamlike… Gunesekera makes for engrossing reading’ Waterstones Book Quarterly

‘An amazing combination of a bleak and easy read... the book slips on by you lightly, almost without effort’ Ali Smith

'There is a great deal of page-by-page pleasure here, and no-one can doubt Gunesekera's accomplishment or elegance; the rhythm and colour of his prose is beyond reproach’ Mail on Sunday

‘A sensuous feast of delight, incessantly pleasurable to read…a book to slowly devoured, page by page’ The Times

'The book is incandescent’ New York Times Book Review