Review
?Evoked with breathtaking precision.?Cumyn?s tale enters the psyche like a knifeblade, stirring visceral response. . . . This novel is a marvel of honesty, an unwavering gaze at the darkest of human failings.?
?Montreal Gazette

?Cumyn?s powerful novel grips us.?Man of Bone is technically accomplished, a powerful, moving meditation on brutality, eroticism, love, pain, god, and humanity.?
?Quill & Quire (starred review)

?There is a chilling confidence and authority in Cumyn?s voice. But there is also tenderness and a delicate poignancy.?Man of Bone is an important novel.?
?Edmonton Journal

?A masterwork of contemporary CanLit.??
?Andrew Pyper, Toronto Star

?One of the best young writers in the country.?
?Alistair MacLeod

?Cumyn is mesmerizing in this novel, which magnificently enshrines spirit beyond the limitations of the physical body.?
?Globe and Mail

?Remarkable.?The writing in this novel is taut and controlled. Burridge?s voice rings true, resonating with the anguished horror of a man at fear for his life.?Cumyn?s background as a research officer for the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board has evidently yielded much raw material for this book, but it is his dexterity as a writer of fiction that enables him to shape his material into a novel of transcendent humanity.?
?The Fiddlehead

?As tautly written as a spy thriller and a masterful meditation on the reality of torture.??
?Matrix

Book Description
Bill Burridge and his family think his first diplomatic posting is ideal. Even if the work at the embassy is more complex than he figured, Santa Irene is still paradise. That is, until the day revolutionaries kidnap him. Tortured beyond human endurance, he finds himself torn between the desire to die and his inability to give up.