Review
'A painful story of the handicapped abandoned in Soviet orphanages' -- Publishing News 20050812 'Bleak, but kinda heroic' -- Venue (Bristol Time Out) 20050812 'Groundbreaking' -- New York Times 'Extraordinary' -- TLS 'A remarkable, episodic memoir of shocking neglect ... Gallego's indomitable spirit in the face of adversity, and his extraordinary way with language, reminded me of Christie Brown's My Left Foot". Albeit with Vodka thrown in.' -- Bookseller 'Brilliant ... extraordinary ..the glimpses of adversity and triumph are quirky, sometimes appalling, often funny and touching without being sentimental' -- Publishers Weekly 'A short, sharp stunner of a memoir ...a rich, haunting and deceptively simple work' -- Kirkus 'This book is today's Gulag Archipelago", a plea to ordinary people not to close themselves off to the truth' -- Naum Nim, editor of Index on Censorship 'He writes with bitter elegance -- and keeps his strange, custom-built sense of humour' -- Observer 'He tells his life in a series of vignettes, as terse and self-contained as his prose style ...Yet Gallego isn't self-pitying. Instead his book exudes a sort of tough wonderment.' -- Financial Times 'An extremely moving account of the triumph of the spirit and intellect over unimaginable suffering' -- Sainsbury's Magazine 'An incredible and moving autobiographical novel' -- Andrey Kurkov, New Statesman
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