RaveThe Guardian (UK)Thwarts any such comparisons by allowing the events that unfold to hover before the reader in the astonishing equipoise of his prose ... Debreczeni’s account manages to make something of this unthinkable jocularity, to report the dead and to report his own life-in-death. He captures detail after harrowing detail ... Only through the difficult act of keeping both the general imperative and the specific example in mind at once can we hope to answer Debreczeni’s anguished call into the void.
