 Zadie Smith wrote in the "New York Review of Books" that it was "one of the great English novels of the last ten years", suggesting it showed a future path that the novel "might, with difficulty, follow".It has since been translated into fourteen languages, and a film adaptation directed by Omer Fast was released in 2015.Several big publishing houses who had rejected the novel returned to him with enthusiastic offers, which McCarthy rejected, commenting that "it's the same book as it was two years ago."