What the critics said

What a great novel! The Offering is alternatively painful and exalting, inferno-like and redemptive, traumatic and sublime; but it is...

A kinotechnical masterpiece for the modern age and a diasporic drama of profound beauty. The best novel I have read...

This book is quite simply excellent! It ends with admirable purpose and finality. All questions resolved in one fell swoop....

A highly compelling novel. The Offering is remarkable in the sustained intensity of its poetic sensibility. One is haunted by...

Beautiful and spellbinding in its capacity to shock and seduce at once. The Offering is a triumph of the art...

This is a book about the power of beauty as a healing source that allows us to go on in...

Salah El Moncef's postmodern-cum-magical realist fiction reads like Kafka by way of Baudrillard.

True to Gustave Flaubert's words on the importance of being "violent and original in art," this book is a mesmerizing...

An exciting conception of the novel. Rare, these days, to pull off suck a trick.

Here we have a young novelist amazing the world with a mystery novel he should not have reasonably achieved. But...