Amis's backwards world is rigorously imagined. It is a world of pathos and cruel hilarity - but the crux, the test of his vision, is what he does with Auschwitz
Guardian
The devastatingly sustained black irony stands comparison with Swift's <i>A Modest Proposal</i>. It is, I think, Amis's finest achievement to date
Financial Times
Extraordinary - Ironic inversion is essentially a comic device, but its trickery here yields results that are rigorously grave
Independent on Sunday
An icy, hard read - Amis is at his intriguing, powerful and heedful best
Time Out
Amis's most daring and ambitious novel
Daily Telegraph