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“A gripping, energetically told, and often funny tale of murder reminiscent of the novels of Patricia Highsmith, Graham Greene, Chinua Achebe, and Alain Mabanckou.”
— Deadly Pleasures, Aug 1 2024
“Didn't think neocolonialism could be punctuated by humour? Then you clearly haven't read Kobby Ben Ben.”
— The Sunday Times (South Africa), Jul 14 2024
“[Kobby and Nana’s] tense relationship sets the tone for what becomes a shocking and unsettling tale of murder that is at times funny, at times erotic, yet always outspoken and iconoclastic.”
— The Sunday Times (South Africa), Jun 21 2024
 “The only way to accomplish a novel so brave was to dim the environmental noise and go into my writing space.”—Kobby Ben Ben
— Newzroom Afrika, Jun 16 2024
“A meeting of Ghana and its diaspora”
— The New York Times, Apr 22 2024
“Genre-warping murder tale fusing queer autofiction with geopolitics and mystery with erotica.”
— ELLE Magazine, Mar 15 2024
“This may be one of my favorite novels ever. It’s so funny.”
— CrimeReads, Feb 15 2024
“A sometimes funny, sometimes spicy tale.”
— Book Riot, Feb 13 2024
“Dark, unsettling, utterly addictive.”
— African Arguments, Jan 16 2024
★ “Ben Ben rejects prevailing colonial narratives with this graphic rock opera of murder, sex, and tourism.”
— Booklist, Jan 11 2024
“Wildly inventive...The sheer wonder of Ben Ben’s narrative design anchors the reader in the immersive maelstrom of voices. The results are propulsive and deliciously irreverent in equal measure.”
— Publishers Weekly, Nov 16 2023
“A book that brims with possibilities, contradictions, jokes, puzzles, detours, ambiguities, secrets and metafictional tricks and twists.”
— The Guardian, Aug 24 2023