McCann may follow Coppola upriver and Conrad to the heart of darkness but the concerns of his novel are contemporary and urgent and utterly compelling. This is an ambitious novel, note perfect, wild but controlled, with its deft apparatus mapping our most mysterious 21st century malaise – the great loneliness of the connected world

KEVIN BARRY

Praise for Colum McCann: McCann writes with an amazing abundance of humanity

ELIZABETH STROUT

McCann is an empathy engine

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

A giant amongst us - fearless, huge-hearted, a poet with every living breathe

PETER CAREY

An audacious and wonderfully skilled writer

JOSEPH O'CONNOR

A great writer prepared to take risks

DAILY MAIL