The Man Who Spoke Snakish
“How to describe the book? Imagine it is the end of the world, and Tolkien, Beckett, Mark Twain, and Miyazaki (with Icelandic sagas and Asterix comic books stuffed under their arms) have got together...
View ArticleMe and You
“Immensely engaging . . . Both tender and emotionally arresting, Ammaniti’s novel is unforgettable.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) The post Me and You appeared first on Grove Atlantic.
View ArticleNocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire
“Precise, gorgeous, and assured.” –Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal The post Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire appeared first on Grove Atlantic.
View ArticleThe Notebook, The Proof, and The Third Lie
“A haunting, harrowing tale that lingers in the imagination long after you’ve turned the last page.” –The Washington Post Book World The post The Notebook, The Proof, and The Third Lie appeared first...
View ArticleA Personal Matter
“In writing novels there is no substitute for maturity and moral awareness. Kenzaburo Oe has both.” –Alan Levensohn, Christian Science Monitor The post A Personal Matter appeared first on Grove Atlantic.
View ArticlePoet in New York
“[Poet in New York] may well be one of the greatest books of poems ever written about New York City. . . . A fierce indictment of the modern world incarnated in city life . . . Wildly imaginative . . ....
View ArticleShards
“Impressive . . . Inventive . . . Pushes against convention, logic, chronology . . . Ambitious and deep . . . [Prcic] succeeds at writing an unsettling and powerful novel.” —Dana Spiotta, New York...
View ArticleThe Silent Cry
Now back in print, a modern classic by Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe, praised as “a major feat of the imagination.” —Times (UK) The post The Silent Cry appeared first on Grove Atlantic.
View ArticleSnow White and Russian Red
“Maslowska’s prose squeals with directionless drive, whizzing like a drug-induced sensory overload: disjointed, formless, unleashed… It tires and invigorates. It also introduces an otherworld of...
View ArticleThe White City
A celebrated bestseller in Sweden, and the winner of the prestigious Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize, The White City is a novel “with a vulnerability that brings to mind Cormac McCarthy’s The Road”...
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