'Brilliant, richly absurd, melancholy' Observer

'Enjoyable on many different levels' Sunday Times

'One of the most outstanding novelists of his generation' Spectator

'A narrative of exceptional imagination and scope' Newsweek

'A fine piece of work, informative, funny tragic. One of those novels that present a whole world for the reader to inhabit' Margaret Drabble

'No writer has swallowed all of Singapore with the verve and wit of the late J.G. Farrell' Time

'His brilliant of style places him beside such masters of the modern novel as Patrick White and Saul Bellow' Olivia Manning