A powerful, impressive book

David Malouf is one of Australia's most esteemed writers... Malouf often works on a broad canvas, portraying places, people and events in the panoramic context of history... [and] evoking the elusive interior worlds of his characters' perceptions

[A] remarkable book, in which the realist and the dreamer are finally and excitingly fused

A meditation, in the form of a novel, on the connection between life and art, by a talented Australian writer

Like all first-class comedians, he is deadly serious

Paul Durcan has a great comic gift

‘Morrison’s legacy in commemorating slavery’s survivors will endure and uplift for centuries to come'

‘Her every word a caress, her every sentence an embrace, her every paragraph, a cupping of her hands around our faces that said: I know you, I see you, we are together’

‘I have never read anyone else like her . . . She was an opener of doors, doors that seemed they might always be shut, doors shut so tight they seemed not to be doors at all’

‘Her legacy is total excellence . . . she is magnificent, her emotional intelligence is second to none and her bravery was equal to her artistry’

‘Morrison almost single-handedly took American fiction forward in the second half of the twentieth century’

‘[Toni Morrison’s] irreverence was godly’

A beautiful book and it's beautifully written

My favourite book of all time

Morrison's stunning trilogy is an evocation of black life over the past four centuries. It defies summary. Completed almost 25 years ago, these novels top anything produced by any American writer including Hemingway, Updike and DeLillo

[A] beautiful, haunting novel

More than one of Morrison's books could be classed as masterpieces, but this one is famous for a reason: everyone should read it