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You can't write books like Vizinczey's out of greed or vanity (the motivation behind most bestsellers), rather you need to have suffered, loved, worked and laughed. To be able to distill those experiences into enjoyable literature is a great gift which deserves a great reward." -- Peter Corris, The National Times, Australia
To say that this amazing novel is about a young man who finds fabulous treasure, only to be systematically robbed of it, is like saying that Hamlet is about a mad prince wandering about a castle. -- Harry Reid, Glasgow Herald
A very funny and serious book... The author's English is timeless, elaborate, musical... Someone urges Mark Niven to read Balzac... But Mark, with his monomaniac quest, his passion for money, his lone stand against the world, is already a character in a novel by Balzac, as are his enemies, powered by greed and anarchic individualism... A crescendo of treachery, delay and exploitation that makes Bleak House look like a tea-party... It would be salutary to discover why this book, whose messages are unremittingly deflationary, should leave one so elated. -- Victoria Glendinning, Sunday Times, London
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