Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022 'An artfully plotted tale about race, privilege and guilt... careful reading proves richly rewarding' - Lucy Poescu, The Observer 'Phenotypes underscores how difficult antiracist projects can be at any scale...Scott's characters quickly abandon the possibility of a comprehensive solution in favor of stopgap measures that may or may not work. Such are the inadequacies, the novel asserts, of treating entrenched and systemic issues as if they are only skin-deep.' - The New York Times Book Review 'A compelling exploration of the fraught reality of race relations in Brazil ... there is much that English-speaking readers stand to gain from the considered, quiet fury of Paulo Scott's novel, not least the expansion of and challenge to modern-day discourses on race.' - Laura Garmeson, Times Literary Supplement