»You’re either hunter or hunted. Filipenko paints a terrifying portrait of a society careening towards the abyss.« 

»The way Sasha Filipenko writes about violence is of such linguistic beauty that it makes me want to immediately delete this sentence.«

»It’s this system of violence and oppression that Filipenko puts under the literary magnifying glass and skilfully dissects, with linguistic and compositional panache.«

»The Hunt is a pageturner.«

»This is a very intense book, a very hard book, but one that’s incredible to read.«

»For all the novel’s savagery, this is sophisticated literary fiction, many-voiced and free in its form.«

»In a remarkably nimble tone, Filipenko succeeds in portraying the perversities of the Russian state apparatus.«

»In this very readable book, Belarusian author Filipenko shows that commercial fiction doesn’t have to be apolitical.«

»With his highly literary, sophisticated prose, Filipenko takes us into the heart of the country on several narrative levels.«

»Perhaps not reading from the history books after all. Sadly, this novel has proved to be timeless.«

»A jumble of voices as chaotic as the country in which moral categories like good and bad seem to have abdicated, and a lack of conscience reigns.«

»Filipenko has written a brutal, a disillusioned book, that fits today's perception of Russia in a haunting way.«

»Using a multitude of forms, Filipenko plays his sentence symphony with virtuosity. But he never forgets to warn. To show how the freedom of the press is being destroyed in Russia.«