It asks to be read more than twice, and the rewards are dazzling * Observer * Delights with its quirky humanity and black humour and impresses by its total originality * Vogue * Captures perfectly the moral squalor and political paralysis that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long-term dictator * Guardian * Delights with its quirky humanity and black humour and impresses by its total originality * Vogue * Captures perfectly the moral squalor and political paralysis that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long-term dictator * Guardian *