Pandora In The Congo

A literary dynamite charge. * * Independent on Sunday * *
Albert Sánchez Piñol is possessed of an exceptional, fecund and devious imagination. -- David Mitchell
Wonderful. * * The Times * *
An action-packed adventure story in the best Rider Haggard tradition and a sophisticated reflection on the imaginative power of literature. Impressive and most unusual. * * Independent * *
Going into that realm of hyperbolic fabulation where Umberto Eco has long made safari, Pandora in the Congo marks Sanchez Pinol's emergence as a significant European writer. -- Giles Foden * * Guardian * *
A rip-roaring historical adventure. * * Scotland on Sunday * *
An African brew with a dash of derring-do. Laced with a heady post-modern investigation into the dark art of telling tales. -- Christian House * * Independent * *

Free of the sometimes stilted quality that dogs translated novels, this is simultaneously a gripping yarn and a genre-bending re-examination of the fiction of a bygone age.

-- Alex Larman * * Observer * *
Pandora in the Congo is a wonderful book on so many levels - the story within a story of Garvey's time in Africa, as recounted by Thomson, is thrilling and compulsive . . . Pinol deftly weaves his theme of deception into all strands of the story . . . this is a cracking story on so many levels - and one of which any master of magical realism would be just as proud as a teller of tales of derring do. -- Simon Appleby * * Bookgeeks.co.uk * *