Dark and compelling, a restlessly energetic and kaleidoscopic work Financial Times A rich and often beautiful, brave, engrossing, intelligent, literate, funny and very human novel. I enjoyed this book in so many ways. I relished this novel - for its compassion, its lyricism and its great human spirit Guardian Exuberant, sublime, startling, surreal and breathtaking Sunday Times Quite simply, a brilliant writer ... Funny, angry, perceptive and poignant, Carnival confirms Hage's status as a star in the literary firmament Toronto Star Every form of laughter this side of uproarious guffawing - the smile, the chuckle, the suppressed giggle, the nudge nudge, wink wink - comes into play in Rawi Hage's Carnival. A display of literary derring-do ... both his funniest and his most serious book Globe and Mail