A stunning debut novel inviting comparisons with Haruki Murakami and Paul Auster
Chloe Aridjis was born in New York, and grew up in the Netherlands and Mexico City. She studied for a BA at Harvard, and gained her DPhil in nineteenth-century French poetry and magic from Oxford University. She then spent five years in Berlin and now lives in London.
Chloe Aridjis has achieved something quite astonishing: a
rethinking of one of our most complacent forms, the historical
novel.... The writer she calls to mind is the Modernist Haruki
Murakami, with his unsolved riddles and ultra-cool characters. It
is a book that you press on friends
*The Times*
[An] exceptional debut novel.... a beautifully turned piece of
writing of extraordinary assurance... As natural as breathing. Both
vivid and dreamlike, at once very precise in its images and also
enchantingly broad-brush atmospheric, this is a debut more
captivating than any I've read in some time
*Independent on Sunday*
The debut novel by the New York-born, now London-based, Aridjis
comes highly recommended by literary heavyweights Paul Auster and
Ali Smith, a choice emphasising both Aridjis's transatlantic appeal
and her literary sensibilities
*Scotsman*
A hypnotic first novel about a young Mexican gal in Berlin who
stumbles into friendship with an eccentric historian and the
madness that ensues. This book has the power of dreams and still
hasn't left me
*Junot Diaz*
A stirring and lyrical first novel by a young writer of immense
talent
*Paul Auster*
A fresh and original voice...the book is a portrait of Berlin, a
city famed for its richness and strangeness, hauntingly captured by
Aridjis
*The Observer*
A most unusual debut... An entirely refreshing portrait of young
womanhood, it is unselfconscious, uncompromising, wholly
authentic
*The Guardian*
Exquisite
*Independent*
This is a haunting debut with an individual, poetic slant
*Herald*
It is Paul Auster, only better... This is a whimsical, confident
book sustained by offbeat charm and intelligence
*Irish Times*
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