The Devil's Workshop (Paperback)

Jáchym Topol cuts through the blur of brutal tragedy and horrific memory with an acerbic sharp edge and the literary know-how of a novelist who more than understands the power of language. Startling, darkly comic, and deeply, deeply moving - Lee Rourke, author, The Canal

This is a funny, fabulous, bleak and speedy novel. Anyone who has read W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz would surely find The Devil's Workshop an intriguing counterpart - Rebecca Gowers, author, The Twisted Heart

A miracle of compression, its scope greater than ought to be possible for a book of its length. Topol [is] one of the most original and compelling European voices at work today - Daniel Medin, TLS

Blending fact and fiction, Topol's darkly comic novel, lucidly translated by Alex Zucker, is a hard-hitting exploration of two nations bedevilled by past horrors - Lucy Popescu, Independent

Humour so treacly black it almost chokes you - Jane Housham, Guardian

Tautly written and provocative... An intriguing and often disturbing examination of the multifaceted nature of evil... An accomplished and highly assured novel from a writer going from strength to strength and fully deserving of his growing reputation - New Internationalist

Horrible, repelling, unusual, and very very good... Topol doesn't put a foot wrong... [He] has created something very original, whilst also managing to make the horrors of history relevant to the present day... Brilliant - Bookmunch

Alex Zucker does a remarkably fine job of conveying Topol's idiosyncratic slang and suggestions of dialect without resorting to affectation... Zucker has brought both sides of Topol, his irony and his sincerity, to us intact - Madeleine LaRue, Quarterly Conversation

A blackly comic novel about the Holocaust industry - John Dugdale, Guardian

Topol deserves your attention... he conveys verve, intellect, and, beneath the trot of his clipped or galloping prose, tenderness - Pop Matters

Entertaining and extremely beautiful... An outstanding translation... [Topol is] a master writer - Three Percent

Full of Gothic horror that frighten[s] you to your senses and make[s] you pay attention to history and its very real scars - Póló Muirí, Irish Times