PositiveThe Los Angeles Review of BooksThough decked out in the trappings of science fiction, the novel is a work of postmodern Gothic that explores the ghosts haunting our globalized interior monologue. While most of the story is set in outer space, the real action takes place inside Jakub’s head. Kalfa?’s talent lies in his elegant handling of the three omniscient ghouls traveling with Jakub: Czech history, his alien companion, and the Czech literary canon itself … An army of other ghosts from the Czech literary canon visits the text, providing the educated reader many moments of light comedy … Jaroslav Kalfa? is most definitely an author worth watching, judging by this shrewd and puckish exercise in what might be called intergalactic Gothic.
