`Niccolo Ammaniti is the best novelist of his generation.' * Il Giornale * `Ammaniti, one of the most admired figures on the Italian fiction scene...uses short sentences like the cracks of a whip and sharp paragraphs to make our hearts race and carry us to the edge of the abyss.' * ABC, Spain * `Ammaniti is a born story-teller.' * L'Unita * `Readers will find this accomplished work hard to put down and even harder to forget.' * Publishers Weekly * `A tense, breathless book, written with self-confidence and vitality.' * La Stampa * `Readable in one breath...moving, impressive, amazing. It reminds you of Italo Calvino, but a Calvino warmed by a humanity that is not afraid to roll around in the mud.' * Panorama * `Confirms his extraordinary narrative talent, over which he superimposes an atmosphere of horror and marvel.' * Le Monde *