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‘…not just another work of fiction. It is a masterpiece which the simple and the urbane will surely savour. The plot is cosmopolitan, even as the characterization is highly mature and international. There is uncommon expertise in scenery and person/situation presentation, take the instance of Binabi’s encounter with the Swiss psychotic. The storyline is direct enough, arresting and sustaining. The narration is allowed to ride on the wings of events in the life of the key characters. In places, the presentation of the dialogues takes the form of drama, a testimony to the writer’s confidence – experimenting, innovative, daring – reminiscent of Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters. The sudden self-dialogue in some places provide the required insight into the mind and thought pattern of the characters. The maturity and intellectual depth of a writer are best appreciated when one reads the lines and in between lines of the dialogues and the plot fillers..
Gabriel A. Adewole Author/Publisher, Management Consultant, Pioneer Registrar, Nigerian Inst for Training & Development ( NITAD)