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`Ammaniti's descriptions have a film-like quality...The story and those images have stayed vivid in my mind's eye. The message this book carries is also important.' * Good Readings * `With William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Cormac McCarthy's The Road as its touchstones, this dystopian novel pays homage to resilience and survival against the odds in a climate of violence and superstition. It's also a coming-of-age story about a harsh transition to adulthood, with the added stinger that death waits in the wings.' * Qantas Magazine * `As well as conjuring up this excellent characterisation, Ammaniti's prose has a strange, deadpan tenderness that I loved. There is always a sense of hope in the hopelessness. This is a sickeningly wonderful novel, and a perfect example of literary dystopian fiction.' * Readings * `A post-apocalyptic narrative that brilliantly manipulates the usual models even as it transcends their limits...Ammaniti sets a new standard in post-apocalyptic fiction, while creating a world that, populated by desperate innocents, proves far more frightening than any stock cannibals-in-monster-trucks scenario.' * Guardian * `An audacious and elegant post-apocalyptic novel.' * Mindfood * 'Ammaniti is a modern-day Dickens.' * La Repubblica * 'A master storyteller.' * Guardian * 'A writer of rigorous imagination and moral subtlety'. * Times Literary Supplement * `Ammaniti's prose is faultless from the first...A fearsomely gifted writer.' * Independent * 'One of Italy's brightest literary stars.' * Observer * `Surreal but somehow also wholly believable. This book is repulsive and terrifying in all the right ways.' * Readings * `Ammaniti excels...in capturing the thought processes and fears and desires of children... once you start reading him, you can't put him down.' * Sunday Telegraph (UK) * `Ammaniti's writing is sharp, lean and pacy.' * Herald Sun * `A fearsomely gifted writer.' * Independent *