A superb achievement

The words 'A Masterpiece' are too often bandied around in reviews, but they should be this novel's subtitle

A novel of vaulting ambition. O'Connor's finest work to date

This book consolidates and deepens O'Connor's stature as a major novelist

Redemption Falls is a major work of modern fiction from an astonishingly accomplished writer

Broad and ambitious...beautifully written...at the heart of O'Connor's masterful epic lies a universal hope for something better

A superb novel... Brilliant work... A lively and exquisitely phrased epic

A huge achievement, as deep as it is wide, this is a book like no other of these times

Redemption Falls is trauma incarnate, but its effect is both compassionate and luminous

Books of this quality demand to be reread to reveal more of their complexities and layers of meaning. Redemption Falls would reward this on the level of its rich textures of language alone

Ta-Nehisi Coates has emerged as an important public intellectual and perhaps America's most incisive thinker about race.

Slavery, forgetting and memory are at the heart of Coates's ambitious, compelling first novel...

A rich, imaginative, vividly characterised rite-of-passage tale

High-octane adventure accompanies ingenious plotting