A powerful saga . . . Aramburu is a captivating writer . . . Few books make me cry these days but by the final page I found my eyes prickling with tears.

It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book that was so persuasive and moving, so intelligently conceived.

A brilliant and important book. Our planet is covered with lines of various kind, and Aramburu masterfully examines the bodies and souls those lines cut through like razors.

A powerful novel . . . Aramburu skilfully spins their stories in short, punchy chapters that dart back and forth in time.

A magnificent novel which is becoming a publishing, political and literary phenomenon. A story imbued with a spine-tingling sense of realism.

Homeland is, above all, a great and considered novel . . . combing evocation and analysis . . . War and Peace by Tolstoy did it. The work of Fernando Aramburu achieves the same thing.

A work of tremendous power . . . we’re once again reminded how overwhelming and powerful literature can be.

Shedding the occasional tear doesn’t matter. It is in any case difficult to read Homeland and remain dry-eyed.

Aramburu recounts the lives of ordinary people shattered by events that are ongoing in Spain today even years after ETA has suspended its armed campaign . . . A humane, memorable work of literature.

A ‘Best books’ by Isabel Allende for The List