While she writes of Nigeria with affection, Adichie never sees it through rose-tinted spectacles. … The stories are compelling and diverse but make up a mere 218 pages – leaving the reader wanting more from this major African talent.
-Daily Expres
“See’s kaleidoscopic saga transits from the barbaric horrors of Japanese occupation to the sobering indignities suffered by foreigners in 1930s Hollywood while offering a buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood.
-Booklist
Mary Beth Keane has produced a compelling drama of transatlantic Irish life, told with a truthfulness that is felt not only in the sweep and charm of the story but in its very sentences. The Walking People is an irresistible blend of narrative and syntactic authenticity.
- Billy Collins, U.S. poet laureat
The scene is eerie, falsely naïve. We may accept what a village girl from Ireland,which remained neutral during the war, may not have known, but Tóibín’s delivery of the racial and ethnic discoveries of a clueless young woman are disconcerting.
- Publishers Weekly
The love story has some great moments, but these aren’t enough to overpower the flood of treacle and lethargic storytelling.
Publishers Weekly
While some readers will anticipate the solution, the pitch-perfect evocation of the period and the compelling, gloomy atmosphere more than compensate for any lack of surprise.
-Publishers Weekly
Wright breaks all the rules of grammar and syntax to sweep us along on a great torrent of language that thrills and amazes with its inventiveness and humour and with the sheer power of its storytelling. It’s brutal and confronting and it’s sad and funny at the same time. Like the Gulf Country itself, this is big enough to lose yourself in. Once in, you may never want to be found.
-Sydney Morning Herald
Veteran Hollywood writer Alan Brennert scored a book-club hit with Moloka’i and has apparently one-upped himself with his freestanding follow-up about early-twentieth-century Hawaii, which was our readers’ clear favorite… a lovely novel.
-Elle Magazine
Every one of the stories … is polished and distinctive. … His range is wide and his language impeccable, never strained or fussy. His grasp of human psychology is fresh and un-Freudianizing.
-New York Times
Fans of the earlier series titles will love the extended sections that re-create the grimly decadent atmosphere of the last days of the Weimar Republic. Highly recommended.
-Libary Journal
