Beautiful, thoughtful … sharp and scintillatingly sensual

Independent

Zoli is such a wonderful novel. McCann is as fine, and persuasive a storyteller as any other working in English today

Scotsman

If a writer's higher calling is to imagine what it is to be “other”, then Colum McCann is a giant amongst us – fearless, huge-hearted, a poet with every living breath

Peter Carey

McCann has offered us an unforgettable picture of this world

Scotland on Sunday

A wonderful novel … McCann is as fine, and persuasive, a storyteller as any other working in English today

Scotsman

With this haunting, poetic work McCann has surely earned his place among the country's greats

Metro