Praise for The Book of Chameleons:
‘Fierce originality, vindicating the power of creativity to transform the most sinister acts. Not since Gregor Samsa’s metamorphosis have we had such a convincing non-human narrator, brought vividly home to us by Daniel Hahn’ – Amanda Hopkinson, Independent
‘Strange, elliptical, charming’ – Guardian
‘Ingenious, consistently taut and witty’ – TLS
‘A curious tale of memory and how it can be shaped, threaded with literary nods, where dreams and reality interweave, and reality itself is interpreted in myriad ways … with truths shifting against a vividly drawn sense of place’ – Metro
‘Humorous and quizzical, with a light touch on weighty themes, the narrative darts about with lizard-like colour and velocity’
– Boyd Tonkin, Independent
‘A poetic, beguiling meditation on truth and storytelling and a political thriller and wholly satisfying murder mystery’
– New Internationalist Books of the Year
‘Witty and perceptive. Agualusa has the distinction of being the first Angolan writer to be translated into English’ – The Herald