'A generation-defining writer'

– The Sunday Times

'My books of the year [include] Jonas Hassen Khemiri's enigmatic novel'

– Joyce Carol Oates

‘Heartbreakingly sad and laugh-out-loud funny . . . Its chorus of drifters, romantics and cynics stick in the memory, each competing to tell their own truth’

– Hari Kunzru

'Unforgettable. In this non-putdownable puzzle of a story, Khemiri manages to both thrill and break your heart'

– Gary Shteyngart

'Khemiri's audacious and richly drawn novel pushes the boundaries of literary fiction . . . Beneath the structural pyrotechnics lies a broader story of imposition, appropriation and lack of individual agency: that of the immigrant experience'

– Lucy Scholes, The National