(Michelsen Foy is) a storyteller who, like Conrad, can compress into a tale you can’t put down all the complexities of a time and place
Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, author of The Golden Notebooks
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A fine, rich bouillabaisse of a book
New York Times Book Review
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A singularly beautifully written book, one that transcends all genre boundaries; it is a serious and major piece of fiction. At the same time it is also a crusader for fiction, for the written and printed word, encroached upon as it increasingly is by other media forms
Infinity.com
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(Michelsen’s) story is a humdinger
Publisher’s Weekly
***
Dour, gritty and addictive
USA Today
***
A tour de force on the frontiers of the imagination
The Times (London)
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