"The novel is as sen-sual as it is eru-dite, a stir-ringly in-ti-mate ex-plo-ration of the pri-vate, earthy place where cre-ation commences."
-The Wall Street Journal

"A remarkable novel ... both a radiant work of the imagination and a fitting tribute to the greatest Greek poet of the twentieth century."
--The Times Literary Supplement

"Engaging and original ... powerfully erotic ... This is a hallucinatory work of art, in every sense."
--The Literary Review

"A lyrical and erotic reimagining of the gay Greek-Alexandrian poet C.P. Cavafy's three-day trip to Paris in 1897 ... dizzying, fevered and beautiful."
--The Millions

"In most lives there are no crucial moments, only representative ones. What's Left of the Night illuminates three days in 1897 when Constantine Cavafy began to glimpse what would be his destiny (his voice and his subject) as a major poet. Sotiropoulos notices every encounter and records every intuition with a lyrical, impressionistic style of her own. A perfect book."
--Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story and Genet: A Biography

"Exquisite ... Admirers of Cavafy will love this convincing portrait of the poet as a young man. But even those new to his work will be beguiled by Cavafy's Paris and this close scrutiny of a poet's mind -- his wavering between faith and despair at his own talent, his desire to be heard. Sotiropoulos's novel, with its own distinctive style, is a worthy tribute to a great man."
--The Times of London

"Sotiropoulos is a fine storyteller ... Her story has pulse, momentum, certainly a power one can call inspired ... Sotiropoulos's Cavafy will ... arrest your gaze and make you look closer, seek the echoes and the traces of a life whose fullness and stark abstraction cannot fail to mesmerise you."
--Bookanista

"Striking ... Sotiropoulos's novel is both a loving tribute to a seminal Greek poet and a contemplative, fascinating reflection on the drive to create art."
--Publishers Weekly

"Ringingly written ... lushly described ... A portrait of an artist coming into his own that even those unfamiliar with Cavafy will find absorbing."
--Library Journal

"A whirlwind novel, full of sensations, and events that sweep the reader along ... There is so much to love about What's Left of the Night: passionate discussions of literature and poetry, extravagant soiréeacute;es, descriptions of the cultural epoch that gave birth to Proust and the conflicts that would later give rise to World War I. But, most importantly, the book captures the beautiful struggle of trying to reconstruct what it must be like to be tormented by art and language, like Cavafy was."
--Asymptote

"In 1897 the young Greek-Alexandrian poet Constantine Cavafy and his brother are passing through a phantasmagoric Paris. Sotiropoulos, one of Greece's most senior novelists, tenderly demonstrates her empathy with the poet's homosexuality and his anxiety for his emergent literary reputation, set against fin-de-sièegrave;cle decadence and pretentiousness. An exciting read."
--The Irish Times

"Blissfully dizzying the reader ... strikes a chord of dark beauty, visceral grossness, and ironic humor indistinguishable from the experience of reading Cavafy's poetry."
--The Los Angeles Review of Books