Just as he did in The Shadow of the Wind, Zafón leads the reader, in this hybrid of romance and tragedy, to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, through a labyrinth of love and passion, of deception and intrigue. And once more the language, as grandiloquent as it is beautiful, creates a magic spell that’s almost impossible to break.
-Literarische Welt
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 laureate
With the many books about Iran flooding the shelves, it is a joy to come across Censoring an Iranian Love Story, which offers a perspective that is neither sentimental nor nostalgic, romanticized nor demonized. Looking at his country and its inhabitants through a fiction writer’s authentic spectacles, Shahriar Mandanipour has written a novel that is witty, smart, funny, and honest. It is an important book for our times.
-Rabih Alameddine, author of The Hakawati
Required reading for all medical students and anyone looking for a little armchair medical adventure.
-Library Journal
First novelist Chenoweth … writes gracefully and eloquently of loss and love, portraying both generations at their most self-absorbed and most vulnerable.
-Library Journal
“A beautifully written and incisive novel about an American couple’s experience in India … Umrigar establishes herself as a singulary gifter storyteller.”
-Publishers Weekly
