The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
“The power of the novel lies not in its research, nor in any kind of experimental form, but in its pages.”
The Finkler Question – Howard Jacobson
It’s difficult to discuss stereotypes with caricatures, to discuss death with characters who could never live.
“For a work that serves in part as an incredible testament to maternal determination, the details of ROOM are brutally honest and never close to saccharin.”
The Four Fingers of Death – Rick Moody
“Moody renders the American West of the future as a place that has suffered massive socio-economic shock, a junkyard that gathers the dusty detritus of a once-great empire.”
The Private Lives of Trees – Alejandro Zambra
“For all his melancholy, Julián is a fragile and brilliant creation, one whose own laws for living mirror the strictures of the novel.”
“We see the effect two souls can have on one another when one soul wants the other to be something other than it is; to wit, itself.”
“Salvation City finds redemption in its beautifully nuanced depiction of those years in which the overarching emotional landscape is one of devastation, intensity, beauty, grief and betrayal.”
How to Read the Air – Dinaw Mengestu
“Mengestu never lets us read the air on our own.”
“At one time or another, Heribert and Humbert may be in the same bed, with the same woman, having the same dream.”
“In Zero History, the future feels more like the now than ever before.”