‘This novel dramatizes, as only good fiction can, that even in reading about transgendered breasts and transcendent visions we are, finally, reading about aspects of ourselves’—Washington Post Book World
‘What holds the narrative together is Kakar’s sympathetic descriptions of religious life—the set piece in a temple that specializes in exorcism is a classic. His prose is clear and evocative’—The Hindu
‘A mesmeric and readable book about a mysticism which tantalises as it recedes in a haze and dust of contemporary revivalism’—Deccan Chronicle
‘Eminently readable . . . deserves the attention of all serious-minded people’—Khushwant Singh, Telegraph
‘With sensitivity and intelligence, Kakar’s Ecstasy offers a poetic view of the place where flesh and spirit meet’—Seattle Times