Remarkably, Gough’s gag-a-minute style never wears thin, and the chapters set in Dublin reveal a satirical critique that pulls no punches. This is modern picaresque at its wildest and most Irish."---FINANCIAL TIMES WEEKEND MAGAZINE 金融时报周末刊
"Don’t miss it."---THE TIMES 泰晤士报
"The pace of the book is frenetic and the writer manages to keep the laughs coming throughout… Gough shows himself to be a master of the comic set piece."---LITERARY REVIEW 文学评论
"If this all sounds weird, it’s because it is, but Julian Gough handles the ridiculous sublimely."---EVENING STANDARD 标准晚报
"Julian Gough is so good a writer, he should probably dispense with plot. What he has is an outstanding talent for comic scenes and for an evocation of balmy good nature."---THE OBSERVER 观察家报
"Jude: Level 1, the hilarious new novel by Julian Gough, is a tour de farce, a comic chronicle of the history of the Irish psyche which takes the reader from the middle of the 20th century to the post-Celtic Tiger ennui of today, at breakneck speed."---GALWAY ADVERTISER 戈尔韦广告
"Intelligent and deliciously dry, Gough’s sparkling words can’t fail to make you sit up, listen and laugh."---GLAMOUR 魅力
"Like Roddy Doyle in an extremely good mood."---WASHINGTON POST 华盛顿邮报
"The sense of hell-for-leather, tongue-in-cheek, cross-referential ruckus does not let up after the opening pages, but grows steadily more surreal as Jude hurtles through Ireland on his quest to discover his past."---THE IRISH TIMES 爱尔兰时报
The SUNDAY TRIBUNE picked the best Irish fiction of the year (they chose only eight books)
“Gough’s novel is like the picaresque bastard lovechild of Flann O’Brien and Matt Groening, and yet is all Julian Gough. Possibly the finest comic novel to come out of Ireland since At Swim Two Birds, it recounts the story of Jude, an orphan, as he wanders through Ireland in a quest to find his true love and uncover the secret behind his parentage. Along the way he gains an erectile nose, and a startling resemblance to Leonardo Di Caprio. Each absurd episode is constructed meticulously, and is delivered with the kind of momentum which should collapse in on itself, and amazingly manages to ascend even greater heights of hilarity. Gough makes it look deceptively easy, with an instinctive sense of timing, and a razor-sharp and subversive intellect."