Laxness was a genius

Sprinkled throughout is Icelandic folk wisdom, dark humor, fatalism and a strong sense of the absurd... A tremendous book

Laxness is a poet who writes to the edges of the pages, a visionary who allows us a plot

A richly detailed detective novel of sorts that explores authenticity and the distance between the way things appear and they way they really are

Dazzling... [a] clever novel that explores the gap between what's remembered and what's real

[A] dazzling novel about art and authenticity... the novel packs a huge amount into its 208 pages. If the reader is never quite sure what's fact and what's fiction, that's just part of the fun

Wonderful... Gainza is fast becoming one of Argentina's most sophisticated writers thanks to the imaginative twirls her writing takes

A delight

Unsettling, super-sophisticated games with the unsaid and unsayable

An enjoyable, feelgood read

If you're after a heart-warming book filled to the brim with hope and humanity, then Julietta Henderson's charming The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman should be your next read . . . A life-affirming tale.

Norman Foreman will capture your heart. His story had me in tears, both of laughter and sorrow, as he bravely battles against the odds to achieve his dream. The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman is a book full of hope, humour and kindness, with one of the most endearing central characters I've met in a long time. An utter delight!

Charming, warm, and uplifting... Julietta Henderson's quirky, lovable characters also offer profound meditations on family, friendship, grief, disability, illness, and aging, all told with heart, humor, and wisdom. There is so much to love about this book.

The most timely, urgent book of 2022... It feels both as thrillingly inventive as [Heti's] ever been and also defiantly and satisfyingly middle-aged... Genius.

Pure Colour is unabashedly metaphysical and completely outlandish...Yet neither grief nor theology can suppress Heti's oddball wit and affection for wildly inappropriate sexual metaphors, for which a reader should be grateful... Heti is the rare mystic with a sense of humor.

Sheila Heti has the innate ability to capture feelings and thinkings that can seem so mercurial, and to provoke new avenues of thought on social codes, with challenge, care, and clarity. Her writing is both a relief and an invigoration.

Pure Colour will make you question life and choices in the same philosophical and lyrically written way.

Heti has evolved the leanest, more powerful, playful, and entirely unique form for writing ideas. With one foot in the everyday and another in the floating world, Pure Colour is a pure feat.

Pure Colour...[is] a honed gem, a surreal bildungsroman... With its philosophical meditations, poetic vignettes and absurdist comedy, it is...a bracing reminder that the novel is the literary form where a writer is free to do anything... Heti...[is] an original and influential voice in contemporary fiction

Heti's... writing is beguiling, funny and wise. The novel's surreal elements invite as many interpretations as an abstract painting

Heti's work is always original - that Pure Colour is also deeply moving makes it all the more remarkable

Compelling

A philosophical novel as timely as the fictions of Camus and Hesse were for another generation. Heti's voice, however, is entirely her own: bold, searching, hilarious, simultaneously artful and artless... her grandest...novel yet