Gripping… Masterly…This is a sprawling, engrossing novel about the ravages of war and the triumph of art. Larsen is an effortless magician, and his performance here is a pure delight.

Strange things happen when Radar Radmanovic is around… If Larsen’s story makes demands of its readers, it also offers plenty of rewards. Imaginative, original, nicely surreal.

Big, beautiful, ambitious…Radical physicist puppeteers? It takes narrative magic to pull off such a loopy combination, and luckily, Reif Larsen has it to spare. His prose is addictive and enchanting. In his hands, even the most familiar scenes sparkle…Larsen writes with wit and warmth…Larsen’s ceaselessly lovely prose is matched by his many ambitions. He’s created an odd ship of characters who will venture halfway across the globe for art and science, not for acclaim but to complete their complex, risky creations.

Sprawling, epic… Mental agility is required to appreciate I AM RADAR, and Larsen doesn’t seem interested in making it easy. It can be frustrating struggling to understand how pieces fit together but so delightful and satisfying when they snap into place…The result is impressive and a little bit wondrous.

I AM RADAR is a more encompassing, more ambitious, more giving novel than even its prodigal younger brother…[Larsen’s] voice is immediately effective, luring the reader into the embrace of a masterful storyteller whom we trust to conduct us on his magical mystery tour…Larsen displays an enormous playfulness and unbounded inventiveness with his tale…This is a novel that scants no aspect of fiction.