“Our Evenings is a truly astonishing novel, by turns delicate and ferocious, radical in the way it explores questions of race, class, sexuality, and origins in a genteel English Home Counties setting. It is the story of a country undergoing great change, even if its people aren’t aware of it—the novel moves through time so beautifully that I felt such a sense of loss at the end.”—Tash Aw

Praise for Alan Hollinghurst

“Hollinghurst has a strong, perhaps unassailable claim to be the best English novelist working today.”—The Guardian

“Hollinghurst knows that the present is never as enlightened as it likes to think it is, nor the past quite as backward. . . . [His genius] has been to speak in a voice steeped in English heritage about a subculture that England’s rigid and stratified society long refused to acknowledge, let alone accept.”—Giles Harvey, The New York Times

“[Hollinghurst has] a truly Jamesian fineness of perception. . . . [He is] one of the best novelists at work today.”—The Wall Street Journal

“One can’t get enough of Hollinghurst’s sentences.”—The Washington Post

“One of our most gifted writers.”—The Boston Globe