 The novel was re-published by the independent publisher Alma Books in the UK (2006), and the Bertelsmann subsidiary Vintage in the US (2007), where it ranked as an Amazon top one-hundred seller and entered the "Los Angeles Times" Bestseller list.On its American publication the "New York Times" dedicated the front cover of its book section to the novel, calling the book "a work of novelistic philosophy, as disturbing as it is funny".In 2008 "Remainder" won the fourth annual Believer Book Award.