His 13 previous books include examples of generational saga, murder mystery, panoramic historical novel, romantic comedy and political allegory.

"Bloomsday: Impressions of James Joyce's Ulysses" tried to compress Joyce's panoramic novel into less than an hour.

Reminiscent of the panoramic novels of Arthur C. Clarke, Iain Banks, and Jack Vance

Gerard Woodward wrote in The Daily Telegraph: "The Half Brother is the kind of big, ambitious, panoramic novel of the sort we tend to think only Americans write these days.

The resulting interplay of selfish, driven characters creates what Greene called "a panoramic novel of London".

A panoramic novel of divided loyalties and corruption.

In Mr. Kantor's panoramic novel, Wirz joined the large cast of fictionalized characters.

"The Stone Diaries," which won this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is a rich, panoramic novel in the guise of a biography.

In 2005 he published a panoramic novel of Vienna during the postwar period, Wien Metropolis (Metropolis Vienna).

Literary masterpieces range from panoramic novels to concise short stories.