RaveThe Guardian (UK)Inventive ... Hamid’s prose style is much more akin to José Saramago. His often paragraph-long sentences are set to an unbroken rhythm. At times, it reads like a parable ... Hamid’s decision to foreground the themes of loss and mourning allows the novel to speak most incisively to the condition of whiteness itself ... Hamid resists simplistic resolutions. In making strange what we find familiar, he reminds us of our capacity to break beyond our limited visions of each other.
