'An audacious figure with a cult following among those seeking an alternative to more naturalist writing.'
-- Times Literary Supplement
'Ibanez has written a huge novel, and he does an excellent job of hooking you in from the beginning with the fast pace... A love letter to humanity and nature, art and culture.'
-- Litro Magazine
'Andres Ibanez is an extraordinary novelist. Sea of Eden is outlandish, unexpected and unusual... Andres Ibanez's masterpiece situates the author comfortably alongside Roberto Bolano.'
-- ABC Cultural
'The author breaks rules few novelists would dare to violate...and the experiment works. Sea of Eden is an
ambitious, maximalist, cosmopolitan, encyclopaedic novel overflowing with vitality.'
-- Eduardo Lago, Revista de libros
'A work of great experience and enlightenment, unique not only in the landscape of recent Spanish literature but, I would argue, across our entire literary history. Pure literary magic, of the kind we encounter only in the work of great talents.'
-- Revista de Libros
'A literary wonder of unbridled imagination.'
-- Diario de Lecturas
'An excellent and entertaining novel... A story of feeling and passion in which love, friendship, eroticism, hatred, suspicion, pleasure and pain are always present, not to mention humour.'
-- Babelia
'A book that will fill many hours with pleasurable, entertaining, philosophical reading.'
-- El Placer de la Lectura
'One of the most necessary, ambitious and, yes, fun novels published in Spanish (or, indeed, in any language) in the past few decades.'
-- Notodo.com
'[Ibanez is], quite simply, a genius.'
-- La Vanguardia
'There are no limits to his capabilities as a storyteller... If there's a writer who can pull off new tricks, whilst staying true to his well-established, unmistakable fictional universe, it's Ibanez.'
-- El Cultural
