An extraordinary novel… one of the most important to come out of he English-speaking in this generation. (Robert Towers in The New York Review of Books)
My thoughts (hastily scribbled on a postcard):
A good book, definitely; it seems to try and find a place for man in society, regardless of whether magical or not, or whether you ‘believe or not.’ Its dilemmas. focused on children born in one hour in one country, and exaggerations of the universal. Comparisons with The Tin Drum are too obvious: the style is perhaps too similar, and is in a way a dissatisfying element. But perhaps it’s the first person's inability to even find a style for himself - always someone else’s. Perhaps he is truly mediocre.
