Extraordinarily haunting * Daily Telegraph *
Seductively realistic * Independent on Sunday *
If I had not myself witnessed the lengths to which regimes such as Hoxha's are prepared to go to cheat and deceive, I should have been inclined to dismiss Shapallo's story as fanciful, and Jones as naive for believing it * A. M. Daniels, Times Literary Supplement *
Beautifully written, evocative and deft * Sunday Times *
'A compelling hybrid' * Jaen Housham, The Guardian *
'Biografi starts big and then zooms in. This is Jones's skill: to draw tiny details that contain the world' * Katy Guest, Independent *
'An enlightening read' * Alastair Mabbott, Herald (Glasgow) *
A gem of the genre * New York Times Book Review *
'Curious and compelling' * Donal O'Donoghue, RTE Guride *
'This is a clever, surreal and mysterious read, certainly worth resuscitating' * Zoe Strimpel, City A.M. *
PRAISE FOR LLOYD JONES * - *
Jones proves sly, engaging, worth-reading and even re-reading * London Review of Books *
Being a truthful writer, Jones sees nothing; neither his heroes nor his villains in black and white. His is a bold inquiry into the way that we construct and repair our communities, and ourselves, with stories old and new * The Times *
Lloyd Jones gives the tired post-colonial themes of self-reinvention ... a fresh, ingenious twist but his real achievement is bringing life and depth to his characters * Sunday Telegraph *
Lloyd Jones brings to life the transformative power of fiction * Sunday Times *
'Biografi leaves you wishing that a real-life Shapallo may still show up' * Catherine Shoard, Scotsman *
