Jerusalem

"Gonçalo M. Tavares burst onto the Portuguese literary scene armed with an utterly original imagination that broke through all the traditional imaginative boundaries. This, combined with a language entirely his own, mingling bold invention and a mastery of the colloquial, means that it would be no exaggeration to say with no disrespect to the young Portuguese novelists writing today that there is very much a before Gonçalo M. Tavares and an after . . . I've predicted that in thirty years time, if not before, he will win the Nobel Prize and I'm sure my prediction will come true." — Jose Saramago

"This is a powerful little book and Dalkey Archive should be commended for bringing it to an anglophone audience." — Toby Lichtig

"Yes, it's bleak but it's also daring, thought-provoking and brilliant." — Daniel Hahn