“This novel—which also beautifully renders the sensuality of Ceylon—is a very artful and evocative plea for interpretation over explanation, for complication over simplification. (...) The Hamilton Case does enchant, certainly, but—more important—the book admirably and resolutely sees the world as it really is.”

William Boyd (The New York Times)

A 2004 Vacation Reading (selected by The New York Times)
“A beguiling, multilayered novel that spans much of the 20th century, shifting its point of view several times; its primary action bears on the murder of a white man in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and the history, both family and personal, of Sam Obeysekere, an upper-class Sinhalese lawyer whose analysis of the crime is crucial but does nothing to advance his prospects.”