Sensational... Another exemplary tale of suffering from one of the best writers of our time, who dares to articulate our incomprehensible existence, and manages it with extraordinary and sensitive eloquence

[Slow Man] finds the Nobel laureate on top form... A consummate writer of fiction

Coetzee is a unique voice; no novelist explores the ideas and the power of literature and the sense of displacement so boldly. Slow Man will add to his immense reputation

Remorselessly human, it is also funny and touching: Coetzee the artist remains the complete novelist

A tremendous and startling novel... Coetzee is a novelist who cares about every word. Slow Man confirms him as among our greatest living authors

A mixture of penetrating insight and brittle wit that forces our attention on common terrors we don't want to think about: the fragility of health, the loneliness of old age, the limits of medical care

Displays all his expected pitch-perfect restraint, the language diamond clear

A sutble and moving delineation of their [Rayment and Marijana] unequal relationship and of the pains of unrequited love

A novel seeded with literary allusions, ironies and fictive presences...many-layered

Full of the deftest psychological touches and some acutely realised brooding on the old fictional firm of memory and desire, Slow Man's code "if code it is" stays resolutely, and tantalisingly, uncrackable

Sophie McManus has a shrewd eye for telling gestures and an ear for cruel speech and kindness.She is an incisive, surprising prose stylist, and her debut novel, The Unfortunates, heralds an exciting new talent with an old soul.

Is Sophie McManus the next Emma Straub?

Cohen, a key member of the United States' under-40 writers' club (along with Nell Freudenberger and Jonathan Safran Foer), is a rare talent who makes highbrow writing fun and accessible

[Cohen has] manifold talents at digging under and around absurdity... Language - not elision - is the primary material of Cohen's oeuvre, and his method of negotiating his way toward meaning is like powering straight through a thick wall of words... The reward is an off-kilter precision, one that feels both untainted and unique

Like [David Foster] Wallace, Cohen is clearly concerned wtih the depersonalizing effects of technology, broken people doing depraved things, and how the two intersect in tragic (and, sometimes, hilarious) ways. The franticness with which he writes about these themes is, at times, Wallace-esque

What dazzles here is a Pynchonesque verbal dexterity, the sonic effect of exotic vocabulary, terraced sentences robust pusn and metaphors and edgy, Tarantino-like dialogue

In Mr. Cohen’s hands, a meme is a matter of life and death, because he goes from the reality we all know—the link, the click—to the one we tend to forget: the human. . . . Cohen is ambitious. He is mapping terra incognita

Enthralling… Awe-inspiring

Cohen is immensely clever, witty, and indeed funny. He also knows about technology, and thus his novel deals with the world in the age of the internet

Book of Numbers brilliantly and rigorously examines a question that confronts literature today: What does the explosion of information from the internet mean for the future of storytelling?

Fascinating...for chutzpah alone, Cohen's chaotic fantasia certainly impresses

Frequently amazing, [it is] the first work of fiction to engage fully with the internet and its influence on modern living

There are wonderful things here cloaked with an invisibility spell, tucked away in the middle of the book, where only the stubbornest seeker after enchantment will find them