All Men Are Liars

A meticulously constructed and brilliantly executed discourse on the nature of truth and writing... [the author] has managed to create a work that is expertly weighted: at once Latin American in spirit and yet universal in its reach. * The Literary Review *
A moving paean to the power of the written word and a condemnation of the repressive powers that so often seek to subvert it. * The Tablet *
This playful, ingenious but finally tragic novel invites us... into a labyrinth of rival narratives with an all-too-real monster at its heart. * The Independent *
[Manguel’s fiction] works from the human core outwards, and is in fact elaborately though unpretentiously constructed. * The Guardian *
All Men are Liars is interesting as an exercise in storytelling... but is lifted to excellence by more traditional values: in its sense of place... in its love of characters... in the colloquial roll of its gossip-spun action. * The Guardian *
Clever, witty and entertaining; and very timely in a society increasingly accustomed to living in a blizzard of lies. * The Times *
All Men Are Liars is a remarkable novel — richly textured, ingeniously constructed and deeply unsettling. * The Spectator *
The novel... aims to shed light on the circumstances surrounding [Bevilacqua]'s death, but what it actually achieves is broader and more interesting. The predominant pleasure, as we pass from one narrator to another, is a growing impression (an illusion, perhaps, but a pleasing one) of a man's life coming into focus. * TLS *
If Paul Auster wore a friendly beard and had more of a Latin temperament, he might produce something like this richly hued, melancholy and funny puzzle of a novel. * The Guardian *