Orwell would have been proud to journey with a writer as good as Colum McCann

Irish Sunday Independent

A mesmeric find

Observer

His stories are the work of a most vivid imagination, perpetually finding new shapes and ways of examining the world

Sunday Tribune

Rich, powerful stories that place McCann at the front ranks of contemporary Irish writers

San Francisco Chronicle

Beautiful … These well-made stories, written with fierce beauty, are sure of their effect and power

Washington Post Book World

There is magic in this McCann, and he brings to each page a special sorcery with the voices he conjures … No one can read through and not emerge feeling changed, somehow ennobled by it

Baltimore Sun