"A strange book in the best sense of the word. This is not an ordinary novel, it will surprise many."--Rodrigo Fresán

"A discovery; an anti-utopian moral story with raw, carefully-crafted writing; among the best I've read in a long time."--Rosa Montero

"The precision of the writing is entwined with the author's visionary capacity."--Pere Gimferrer, member of the Premio Biblioteca Breve jury

"A book both powerful in what it tells and brilliant in what remains silent."--Menéndez Salmón

"There's something about the book that is decidedly addictive, a real page-turner."--Yann Suty

"By inserting a cold, heartless but all-too-familiar corporate environment into an ultra-violent urban universe, The Clerk draws a chilling portrait of the savagery and difficulty to love that characterize contemporary society, and especially of alienation produced by bureaucracy."--Charybde 27

"With spectral serenity, suggestive images, and outstanding stylistic coherence, Saccomanno ... unravels the story of a contemporary slave in only 55 chapters."--Die Welt

"Saccomanno has a superb command of horror. The Clerk is an existential expressionist blend of office novel and film noir."--Berliner Zeitung