When the novel was first published, MOST critics were full of praise 'Fairly waltzes the reader along...the mixture of the mundane and the fantastic is deceptively artless, the prose full of energy and humour and beneath the playfulness there is an undertow of pain...a thought-provoking and entertaining debut.' - Hilary Mantel, Daily Telegraph. 'Funny, bright and painfully sad...' Helen Shaw, Irish Times. 'Immensely appealing...Umfaan's Heroes is a winner from cover to cover from an author with an abundance of talent.' Evelyn Holzhausen Cape Times. 'Excellent...is this Tom Sharpe territory?...