Tenth of December - Tapa dura

A joyous, mad, brilliant, laugh-out-loud box of tricks from one of America's most daring writers. Delicious, delicious, delicious. I could read Saunders forever (Liz Jensen)

Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny with a prose style this fine. Saunders is a morally passionate, serious writer, who perfectly expresses the madness of the times we live in. He will be read long after these times have passed (Zadie Smith)

Again and again, Saunders demonstrates that wacky, subversive, formally strange writing is not only not contrary to our nation's capitalist spirit, it's the most natural and effective of responses to it. He makes the all-but-impossible look effortless. We're lucky to have him (Jonathan Franzen)

Saunders reads like Barthelme or Coover, and can be funnier than either (Hari Kunzru, Books of the Year Guardian)

Surreal and puncturing (Margaret Atwood)

Saunders, as an American social and literary critic, may be shaping up as the Orwell of the millennium (The Times)

An astoundingly tuned voice - graceful, dark, authentic, and funny (Thomas Pynchon)

A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth (Joshua Ferris)

Saunders is a writer of arresting brilliance and originality, with a sure sense of his material and apparently inexhaustible resources of voice ... Scary, hilarious and unforgettable (Tobias Wolff)

Like the illegitimate offspring of Nathanael West and Kurt Vonnegut ... Mr. Saunders's satiric vision of America is dark and demented; it is also ferocious and very funny (Michiko Kakutani The New York Times)