"Compulsory reading for anyone visiting Pakistan"
Harvard International Review
"The author's real journey is a search for common humanity"
The Daily Telegraph
"Magnificent ... a travel book that travels through the mind"
Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban and Descent Into Chaos
"Intelligent and compelling"
Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Moth Smoke
"Wonderful ... a model of travel writing"
Edwidge Danticat