Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible to put down

Visionary...a bold and generous book

Critics have variously likened him to Raymond Carver, Raymond Chandler, Arthur C. Clarke, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Bret Easton Ellis and Thomas Pynchon - a roster so ill assorted as to suggest Murakami is in fact an original

Murakami writes of contemporary Japan, urban alienation and journey's of self-discovery, and in this book he combines recollections of the war with metaphysics, dreams and hallucinations into a powerful and impressionistic work

Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original

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

The immigrant's plight is sensitively captured... But this is not a story of hopelessness - rather, it's the gritty determination and the dark wit...and perspicacity with which Sepha can view his adopted homeland that make this a rich, moving read

This potent book about America's most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.

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...