We the Animals (Paperback)

A heart-rending coming of age novel - intense, poised and pummelling. Almost pitch-perfect in its nerve-exposed vulnerability - Helen Davies, Sunday Times

Torres's lyrical treatment of transgression can be shocking... [At] times his prose has the intensity of poetry - Peter Carty, Independent

A strobe light of a story, its flash set on slow, producing before our eyes lurid and poetic snapshots... I want more of Torres's haunting, word-torn world - New York Times Book Review

It's rare to come across a young writer with a voice whose uniqueness, power and resonance are evident from the very first page, or even the very first paragraph... A slender, tightly wound debut novel by a remarkable young talent... Torres should excite us the way that Raymond Carver or Jeffrey Eugenides did - Washington Post

A searing and sparkling piece of writing that promises great things to come - Esquire

An exciting and unique narrative voice... his powerful, lyrical prose gives even the darkest of scenes a sheen of brilliance - Stylist

Delicious pacing [with a] dark sparkle... It takes you to a place you wouldn't think of going to voluntarily, but you'll be glad for the ride - Gay Times

Oscillating between violence and affection, pathos and humour, the story is enriched by Torres's fresh and ornate prose - Alex Preston, Observer

The 19 short chapters are each like a round in a boxing match - intense, poised and pummelling - Helen Davies, Sunday Times

A slender but affecting debut novel... We the Animals is the kind of sensitive, carefully wrought autobiographical first novel that may soon be extinct from the mainstream publishing world - New York Times

A heart-rending fiction debut, about an American boy who grows up and apart from his close-knit family - Sunday Times

Very effectively evokes the physicality of living together at close quarters through tears, laughter and terrible betrayal - Alastair Mabbott, Herald

Extraordinary... offers powerful imagery and sentences that pierce straight through the skin - Dundee University Review of the Arts