Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist - Tapa blanda

A gorgeous riot against injustice (Guardian)

Huge ambition . . . impressive (Sunday Times)

Yapa writes like a pro (Independent)

Beautifully written. Astonishing (Elle)

Yapa shines in the thickness of the here-and-now, amid the gas, fear, courage and flawed humanity of the street battle, in passages that are cinematic . . . moving (New York Times)

Fast-paced and unflinching . . . As these characters encounter one another in a fog of tear gas and pepper spray, Yapa vividly evokes rage and compassion (New Yorker)

A vital, powerful read, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist is an absorbing, multifaceted, acutely hopeful novel (Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize)

A great wrenching beautiful book (Laline Paull, author of The Bees, shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Fiction)

A symphony of a novel. In the contemporary tradition of Aleksandar Hemon and Philipp Meyer, with echoes of Michael Ondaatje and Arundhati Roy, Yapa strides forward with a literary molotov cocktail to light up the dark (Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin)

Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Fist is an enthralling street-level vision of the 1999 WTO riots, a story visceral, horrifying harrowing, and often heroic. But above all, this book is a full-throated chorus of voices on all sides - protestors, cops, delegates, politicians, and ramblers - as democracy runs headlong into the machinery of global power. Sunil Yapa has achieved something special, a story that is as tragic as it is relevant, as unflinching as it is humane. Watch out (Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek)