"A beautifully written echo chamber of a novel." --David Mitchell, author of
Cloud Atlas
"Gorgeous and wise."
--Douglas Coupland "A wildly ambitious novel that spans centuries." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"A distinctly American novel worthy of comparison with the best work of Pynchon and DeLillo." --Salon
"Kunzru can rival ... any current novelist with the strength of his prose and imaginative boldness." --The Wall Street Journal
"[A] big, innovative, questioning book.... Deeply beautiful." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Quite a ride: This is a book in which monks of the 18th century trudge the Mojave with drug-sodden hippies from the Summer of Love. A book in which Native Americans poised at the twilight of a dying culture try valiantly to guard their myths from relentlessly literal-minded anthropologists. . . . Here are cynical veterans from World War II, hard-bitten GIs fresh from Iraq, randy communards, washed-up bankers, wasted groupies whose only thought is their next roach or a place to park their sleeping bag. Here is death, sex, and rock-and-roll. And all of it, as random as it may sound, is a fitting paean to this jittery world." --The Washington Post
"A stunning achievement. . . . Gods Without Men will undoubtedly prove to be one of the most important works of fiction published this year." --The New York Journal of Books
"Ambitious and wonderful. . . . Rather than looking for easy answers, Kunzru suggests, we should read instead for the questions--remembering that when you travel in the desert, what looks like an oasis is usually just a mirage." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"[A] dreamscape of a novel. . . . Kunzru is a fiercely intelligent writer, who exhibits remarkable control over both his material and his impressive variety of narrative voices." --Slate
"The clever symmetries that link the stories reveal the bleached bones of America; violence, an unending contest over the politics of meaning and faith." --The Paris Review
"A compelling exploration of cosmic-American weirdness." --Entertainment Weekly
"[Kunzru's] deft descriptions of contemporary life capture attention, but what impresses at the end of this novel is its sense of history as a mosaic of endless variations on the human effort to make sense of the world." --The Washington Times
"Gods Without Men [is] in a genre all by itself. It's not a book easily forgotten, and it may haunt you after you've closed the final pages." --Bookreporter
"The finest novel about a cult since Portis's Masters of Atlantis." --Time Out New York
"A powerful excavation of the frayed nerves of New Age America. Whether dealing in UFOs, Indian legends or derivative trading systems, Gods Without Men is a novel about the need for faith in a fragmented, postmodern world shorn of grand narratives and credible belief systems." --The New York Observer
"Mind-blowing. . . . One of the most original novels I have read in years, daringly imaginative, funny and troublesome, and above all a commentary on certain kinds of lunacy that helps define the American character. . . . The ride the writer takes us on up until the final page is one hell of a hair-raising experience, almost every scene demonstrating Kunzru's extraordinary virtuosity." --Counterpunch
"Simultaneously simple and complex, clear and ambiguous." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Beautifully written, ambitiously conceived." --Newsday
