"A writer of real originality and horrifying imaginative power, a writer to be watched, a writer to be read. the whole effect being bare, clipped, stripped, staccato, superbly abrupt. I got the impression of a colossal book, another War and Peace, boiled down and boiled down until only the bones, the essence, the heart remain. This is a nerve-wracking book, ghoulishly successful in touching the reader where it hurts." -- The Scotsman "Everyone interested in literary experiment should read Europe after the Rain. It is unique." -- Financial Times "His experiment works, and out of his brazen chaos emerges a still small human voice." -- Irish Times "Alan Burns's novels deserve the attention of serious readers.

" -- David W. Madden "I always liked Europe after the Rain. because of its originality and the way the author successfully shifts the reality of his narrative in the way a dream does, from page to page." -- John Calder, in Pursuit "One of the two or three most interesting new novelists working in England." -- Angus Wilson.