'An audacious figure with a cult following among those seeking an alternative to more naturalist writing.'

– Times Literary Supplement

'Ibáñez has written a huge novel, and he does an excellent job of hooking you in from the beginning with the fast pace... A love letter to humanity and nature, art and culture.'

– Litro Magazine

'Andrés Ibañez is an extraordinary novelist. Sea of Eden is outlandish, unexpected and unusual... Andrés Ibáñez's masterpiece situates the author comfortably alongside Roberto Bolaño.'

– ABC Cultural

'The author breaks rules few novelists would dare to violate...and the experiment works. Sea of Eden is an
ambitious, maximalist, cosmopolitan, encyclopaedic novel overflowing with vitality.'

– Eduardo Lago, Revista de libros

'A work of great experience and enlightenment, unique not only in the landscape of recent Spanish literature but, I would argue, across our entire literary history. Pure literary magic, of the kind we encounter only in the work of great talents.'

– Revista de Libros

'A literary wonder of unbridled imagination.'

– Diario de Lecturas

'An excellent and entertaining novel... A story of feeling and passion in which love, friendship, eroticism, hatred, suspicion, pleasure and pain are always present, not to mention humour.'

– Babelia

'A book that will fill many hours with pleasurable, entertaining, philosophical reading.'

– El Placer de la Lectura

'One of the most necessary, ambitious and, yes, fun novels published in Spanish (or, indeed, in any language) in the past few decades.'

– Notodo.com

'[Ibáñez is], quite simply, a genius.'

– La Vanguardia

'There are no limits to his capabilities as a storyteller... If there's a writer who can pull off new tricks, whilst staying true to his well-established, unmistakable fictional universe, it's Ibañez.'

– El Cultural