“The best book I’ve read all year. Protean, singular, original.” —Amal El-Mohtar for the New York Times

“A gorgeous blending of the mythic and the mundane.” –Erin Morgenstern, bestselling author of The Night Circus

“Riveting, surreal, clever and wise and all-too real — a breathtaking achievement.” —Max Gladstone, New York Times bestselling co-author of This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Chandrasekera builds a dizzyingly complex world, with enough ideas for 10 books, and it’s all entertaining enough that his theme — the dangers of religious extremism paired with racist totalitarianism — sneaks up on you.” —The Washington Post

“… dreamlike and piercing in its emotional truth … hard to put down as it is to step out of a dream: and like a dream, even when it doesn’t make sense, it is true. What’s truly unbelievable is that this is someone’s first book.” —New Scientist

“One of the most satisfying novels, in any genre, that I’ve encountered in quite some time.” —Chicago Review of Books

“Inspired and dreamy book” —The Wall Street Journal

“Dreamlike and inventive, this unusual novel is a complicated read that ably pairs the mundane with the mystical.” ?Library Journal

“The biased, often violent, incomplete nature of history-telling will engage readers long after finishing.” ?Booklist

“A meandering meditation on mind-body duality, fanaticism, and eschatology that will appeal only to fans of the most cerebral fantasies.” ?Publishers Weekly