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“... The prestidigitator with the big beard must be Castro, but the missing leg is mysterious. Neil Bissoondath’s Digging up the mountains is a first book and a collection of short stories. The separate pieces are linked by an embittered sense of expatriation. Bissoondath himself was born in colonial Trinidad in ...”

“... kind of attention Shammas’s and Sterchi’s books received in their own countries. Admirers of Neil Bissoondath’s collection of stories, Digging up the mountains, who were eagerly scanning their newspapers for tidings of his first novel might be forgiven for not noticing that it had been published. But it has: and A Casual Brutality is a very ...”

“... the multiculturalist future better than the natives (the Canadian crop profiled by Iyer, including Neil Bissoondath and Madeleine Thien), and immigrants who think multiculturalism is dangerously naive, even as they benefit from it. But we have not had an immigrant as viciously disaffected, as comprehensively alienated, as the unnamed narrator of ...”