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elicited comparisons to Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, James Salter, Paul Bowles, among others. He seems to be a revenant from a species that has, paradoxically, become almost extinct following the triumph of globalisation: the traveller (or travel-writer)-novelist...Written with unfailing precision and beauty, "Hunters in the Dark" stakes out territory different from the many writers to whom
Osborne has been compared." Arifa Akbar, literary editor of The Independent, chose it as one of her Books of the Year for 2015. In the Evening Standard, British critic David Sexton wrote : "Hunters in the Dark" is itself pitilessly good. Those comparisons with Graham Greene aren’t even flattering any more."
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