A gift to humanity

An important book... Extraordinary

Probably the best book on the [Booker] longlist, the one that will last... Every word counts. Every sentence lives

The best novel I've read this year, a book so bold and so clever that one wants to call it something other than a novel, to take it out of that commonplace genre

A readable and engaging book. Demanding, playful, provocative...hugely enlightening and rewarding

Mr Greens' extraordinary power of plot-making, of suspense and of narration...moves continuously both in time and space and in emotion

His style is spare, that's what is so beautiful. His novels are genuine romans philosophies - novels illustrating ideas

In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety