“Novakovich’s mix of America and Croatia makes for unique insights into the troubled Balkan region. One comes away with a sense of why that region imploded, and why its people acted as insanely as they did.” - Hartford Courant
“Eye-opening, fibrillating fiction. . . . Brutally honest. . . . We are much the better for Novakovich’s fertile, cross-border imagination” - Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Novakovich is one of the great American writers of recent emergence.” - Kirkus Reviews
“Novakovich is a natural storyteller; in INFIDELITIES, he never lets the human heart out of his sight.” - Aleksandar Hemon
“Infidelities is a joy to read. In Josip Novakovich comedy lies beyond hope and is at once a wound of the spirit and its balm-not to mention personal identity’s last ditch strategy for survival. I found the book exhilarating.” - Stuart Dybek
“A wry and compassionate observer, Novakovich . . . continues to write about his homeland with flinty precision and a peppery brew of sublimated emotions. Fluent in the many shades of meaning conveyed in the subtlest of gestures and the briefest of conversations, and gifted with a stinging sense of humor, Novakovich fashions take-charge tales of displacement that embody the fracturing of war and the misdirection of lust, the dream of sanctuary and the chasm of loneliness.” - Booklist
“Novakovich has perfected the grand style of the Continental anecdote, with its...retrospection [that] falls prey to irony.” - Publishers Weekly
“Wickedly funny and deeply harrowing. . . . Darkly ironic . . . Novakovich knows how to tell a story, and his prose has an easy, elegant velocity. . . . .Strange, lyrical beauty abounds here.” - Maud Casey, New York Times Book Review
“A forlorn and frequently hilarious novel. . . . A sort of Balkan conflation of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Gogol’s Dead Souls, and Slaughterhouse Five. - Minneapolis Star Tribune