I'm still mystified why there is so little on Verhaeghen and "Omega Minor" on the internet, when it comers to reviews, opinions, and so on. The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is usually big news. And the book has already appeared in German and the original Dutch. But I can find very little. One more informative review is:
http://sunews.syr.edu/story_details.cfm?id=3048
But this was written about a year before he won the prize.
The
Jewish Chronicle (London) is less enthusiastic:
http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?Paren...7261&ATypeId=1
While the
Rain Taxi website is quite the opposite - pretty gushing:
http://www.powells.com/review/2008_03_23.html
The Dutch (despite the name)
Cutting Edge website says it's a masterpiece:
http://v3.cuttingedge.be/reviews/boo...megaminor.html
There's not much more been said about the book. We will have to look again in six months' time.