“This first novel, however, has the feel of a breakthrough, a transcendence. While ranging across two continents and three generations, it generates swift story momentum but never lacks for subtlety, bringing off a holocaust literature to rival the work on last century’s destruction of the Jews...It must be appreciated not only for peering bravely into one African hellhole, but also for looking over a whole world in search of safe haven.”
Read the full review in the Brooklyn Rail.
