Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century

Explores the viciousness that lies beneath what we imagine to be innocence

Told with Mishima's fierce attention to naturalistic detail, the grisly tale becomes painfully convincing and yields a richness of psychological and mythic truth

Coolly exact with his characters and their honourable motives. His aim is to make the destruction of the sailor by his love seem as inevitable as the ocean

A witty, angry and anguished novel

The questions that the novel stages about action, complicity, and discomfort are evergreen, but they resonate with particular force for any American trying to figure out their relationship to Trump and Trumpism now

This is the first work of fiction I've read about AIDS that portrays the enormous activist response the epidemic has generated...Schulman's people are fighters...terrifically inspiring examples of the human spirit's passion for revival

This emotional book won't make the walls of repression crumble, but it might make you understand this painful, hopeful moment better

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