Rachel Kushner’s debut novel is an absolute blinder... Like the sea which surrounds Cuba, Telex From Cuba is ever-shifting, and it is luminous

If you relish glittering language that pursues emotional and political truth, you'll be enthralled by Telex from Cuba... the atmosphere seethes and crackles... [a] lush, intoxicating book

Telex from Cuba is epic and enjoyable: the style is lush and precise; the parties and cookouts, the drinks and affairs are beautiful and poignant, full of the pleasures of wealth overshadowed by loss.

Fascinating and vividly detailed... You can almost feel the heat radiating from the page: the air is mosquito-thick and tainted with a nickel oxide haze, the tropical landscape a character in its own right

A piece of fiction quite breathtaking in its assurance […] a beautifully weighted treatise on colonial attitudes, capitalism, racism and the interactions and divisions between cultures and classes

A lush, meticulous, cinematic debut novel

Kushner evokes a dreamlike paradise... A poignant tale

[Kushner's] cleverly counterposed registers and nuanced explanation of the way we make and remake ourselves elevates her book beyond the standard historical romp

Detail-packed prose

Deeply evocative... A fascinating and vividly detailed portrait of the country

An intriguing, multifaceted portrait of a society in flux

Massively compelling… Tough yet tender writing that throbs with history, nostalgia and love

It begs for a big-screen adaptation

Telex from Cuba is a wonderful debut and essential reading for those who wish to follow the career of one of the best new writers of our generation

[Telex From Cuba] proves that this American author is a superstar of the future

An epic, almost cinematic sweep of a vanished time and place

A pure treat from the cover to the very last page

Mutli-layered and absorbing... Kushner's style is sure and sharp, studded with illuminating images... Kushner has fashioned a story that will linger like a whiff of decadent Colony perfume

Fresh and compelling. Kushner takes us to a place and time we've seldom visited before

A stunner of a novel... A fluid, eye-opening symphony of a book

With its sharp detail and precisely drawn characters, Telex from Cuba offers a compelling look at a paradise corrupted

Telex from Cuba elegantly weaves together a gripping story of individuals and their lives leading up to one of the most notorious revolutions of the twentieth century

Visceral and moving.

Lachyrymachismo. The art of being weepy and tough at the same time. This book has it in spades. Or rather buckets.

The great thing about Roddy Doyle is his ear for the demotic… The Guts is a good read.

Doyle explores post-boom Ireland with gusto.

Unsurprisingly, every bit as good as the original [The Commitments], Doyle is one of those rare writers who never disappoints

Wise, wistful and poignant.

Bittersweet.

Long-awaited sequel.

Doyle’s ear for dialogue is as acute as ever and there’s a lot of amusing asides about contemporary life in this revisiting of much-loved characters.

A book full of Doyle's dark humour mixed with melancholy and wonderful moments of sheer madness.

The feat of The Guts is Doyle’s ability to create in Jimmy a character who hangs together even while so many of his certainties have collapsed. And to get a few good jokes in as well.