Biografi

Reviews / Votes

Extraordinarily haunting * Daily Telegraph * Seductively realistic * Independent on Sunday * If I had not myself witnessed the lengths to which regimes such as Hoxha's are prepared to go to cheat and deceive, I should have been inclined to dismiss Shapallo's story as fanciful, and Jones as naive for believing it * A. M. Daniels, Times Literary Supplement * Beautifully written, evocative and deft * Sunday Times * 'A compelling hybrid' * Jaen Housham, The Guardian * 'Biografi starts big and then zooms in. This is Jones's skill: to draw tiny details that contain the world' * Katy Guest, Independent * 'An enlightening read' * Alastair Mabbott, Herald (Glasgow) * A gem of the genre * New York Times Book Review * 'Curious and compelling' * Donal O'Donoghue, RTE Guride * 'This is a clever, surreal and mysterious read, certainly worth resuscitating' * Zoe Strimpel, City A.M. * PRAISE FOR LLOYD JONES * <b>-</b> * Jones proves sly, engaging, worth-reading and even re-reading * London Review of Books * Being a truthful writer, Jones sees nothing; neither his heroes nor his villains in black and white. His is a bold inquiry into the way that we construct and repair our communities, and ourselves, with stories old and new * The Times * Lloyd Jones gives the tired post-colonial themes of self-reinvention ... a fresh, ingenious twist but his real achievement is bringing life and depth to his characters * Sunday Telegraph * Lloyd Jones brings to life the transformative power of fiction * Sunday Times * 'Biografi leaves you wishing that a real-life Shapallo may still show up' * Catherine Shoard, Scotsman *