Kadare's most daring novel, one of the most complete visions of totalitarianism ever committed to paper

If there is a book worth banning in a dictatorship, this is it

Kadare's delicately misted view of another world (as much internal as totalitarian) lives up to the splendour of his title

Inexorably takes your breath away

Sly and funny. A deeply pleasurable page-turner

It is Lurie, not Updike whom people will one day read to discover what our life and times were really like. Dazzling intelligent, witty, perceptive and engaging, she is not to be missed

Lurie is the reigning queen of a certain kind of academic comedy... Truth & Consequences is a deeply pleasurable page-turner

Lurie's entertaining novel charts these symmetrical relationships with subtlety and compassion, and thoughtfully examines the balance of power between those who give and require care

Lurie expertly maps the downward marital slope: the slow falling out of love, the undignified transformations of middle age, the interplay of eros and hypochondria... The author's satirical gifts are undiminished

A story of modern love that will have readers laughing and sighing with recognition... A wry, insightful, thoroughly enjoyable tale about how men and women choose their demons and their lovers, and the sacrifices they're willing to make for both

Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect