'A novel full of wonders, written with an exuberance that's also cunningly observant, inspired in its creation of a rapturous poetry out of existence's middle level, profoundly wise about human emotion, and often funny.' - Amit Chaudhuri

'The Enclave is a sharp, and often hilarious, portrait of womanhood in post-liberalization India. Rohit Manchanda creates a protagonist rarely encountered in Indian fiction, a middle-aged government worker, and renders in vivid detail the competing demands of art, bureaucracy, and singledom on her time. Here's a striking, unusual and very original voice.' - Amrita Mahale

'Told with exquisitely transparent writing and fine-tuned dialogue, this is a story that you glide on with joy and wonder.' - Arunava Sinha

'This is a novel whose door has been left "unlatched, nonchalantly ajar", so that the "majaa" of the comparatives becomes an addiction: the "dhoop chhaon"; the Guru Dutt brow and Balraj Sahni-mould; a man who, in his bedroom, looks like a "magnet mobbed by iron fillings"; the rain so fine that the "low-hung clouds" seem "fitted with atomizers". I read it in a dry town, feeling the novel's energetic humidity.' - Sumana Roy