"With his fastidious wit and exquisite style, John Banville is the heir to Nabokov," wrote The Sunday Telegraph. Banville's last novel, The Sea, won the Booker Prize in 2005. His new novel is The Infinities. "Leave it to an Irishman to write one of the greatest-ever novels about New York," wrote Dave Eggers of Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin. It's "a gorgeous book, multilayered and deeply felt, and it's a damned lot of fun to read, too."