'Like a mad cross between Don Quixote and The Screwtape Letters, this is wonderfully inventive and hilarious.'
The Times

'Literary Prozac.'
Cosmopolitan

'Eduardo Mendoza is one of contemporary Spain's most important writers.'
New York Times Book Review

'This romp of a book is a humourous satire of life in the Western world...which perceptively and endearingly emphasizes the irrationalities of Western Life'
Bookmunch

'For sheer descriptive writing he is unrivalled.'
André Clavel

'An accomplished literary novelist who knows how to entertain.'
Kirkus Review

'Very, very funny...lots of good fun to be had here.'
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