Delirium

Delirio is a Colombian story, an expression of everything that fascinates us about Colombia, including what's terrifyingly fascinating. Restrepo has a total mastery over what she writes, an astonishing but absolute mastery. Delirium is one of the finest novels written in recent memory

José Saramago

A book and a half: stunning, dense, complex, mind-blowing

Washington Post

A disconcertingly lovely book...sharp, vivid, utterly persuasive

New York Times

Haunting...her unhinged heroine is a true mirror of a damaged and deranged society

Guardian

Delirium has a determined and muscular narrative, with dry humour and a terrible sense of menace

Daily Telegraph

This barrio angel teaches us to see behind the appearance of things and how to embrace reality with all the senses

Isabel Allende

Laura Restrepo's Delirium has an aesthetic distinction worthy of her precursors Garcia Marquez and Saramago. Like them, her narrative sense of erotic derangement is elaborately nuanced. Ultimately she seems to me an authentic descendent of the greatest New World author and seer of eros, Walt Whitman

Harold Bloom

This beautiful and disturbing book haunted me during the days I read it and long after I put it down. Love, unknowability, loss, and even various forms of gain elide from one to another of its passionate, unnerving voices

Vikram Seth

A compelling and unnerving novel that offers profound insights into the deep scars that violence leaves on the individual and society

Observer