" Tlooth presents the reader with cornucopia of improbable inventions, bizarre artefacts, linguistic riddles and mind-boggling discoveries, all recounted in a studiedly neutral tone that is at once lucid, precise and wholly unrevealing of its author's 'psychology.'" -- London Review of Books "A brilliant book, in a very special way. While the method of telling it is quite sober, and the language plain, what actually happens is totally bizarre and wonderful. The descriptions that are blandly handed to you show an imagination and an ingenuity that are often just astonishing. The details are sometimes very savage and scabrous. But the book has nothing to do with modish sick humor. It is, for all its incidental excesses, fantasy, pure and simple. This is a journey worth taking.

" --Harper's "[A] cross between The Crying of Lot 49 and Wim Wenders's Until The End of the World --a nested set of stories disrupting a quest underwritten by a revenge plot which wanders across the globe." --Paul A. Harris.