A dazzling novel in which the sanctified corpse of Eva Peron supports meditations on memory, mythology and national character.

- Booklist "In Crais, a new star has appeared on the private eye scene - a dazzling first novel."

The result is "a dazzling and delicious first novel," Frank J. Prial said in these pages last year.

"Two Girls, Fat and Thin," a dazzling, ambitious and ultimately messy novel, followed in 1991.

"The God of Small Things," Arundhati Roy's dazzling first novel, begins as a sort of mystery story.

The Galatea in Richard Powers's dazzling new novel is a modern-day incarnation of the statue that came to life in the old Pygmalion legend.

A dazzling first novel.

Whatever the source of the breakthrough, the result, a trio of dazzling novels in a comic mode that the author has now made completely his own, is a cause for celebration.

In Cristina Garcia's dazzling first novel, three generations of women dream about Cuba.

Similarly, innovative, form-breaking works like Dale Peck's dazzling new novel, "Martin and John," have followed more conventional, journal-like accounts of the disease.