RaveThe Irish TimesThere are writers who bear witness to history, and there are writers who alter the way we see it. Herta Müller belongs to the latter category ... Structured as a dialogue with her long-time editor Angelika Klammer, and beautifully translated by Kate McNaughton, the result is a sustained work of literary self-reflection ... This is ultimately not a book about Romania; it is about what writing protects when everything else is under threat.
RaveIrish Times (IRE)Quietly devastating ... Chidgey writes with surgical precision and emotional weight ... A singular story that lingers.
RaveIrish Times (IRE)Deeply intimate, expansive, and genre-defying ... A poetic reckoning ... Every page pulses with vulnerability and insight ... Antrobus reveals the deep richness found by those who listen differently. He dismantles the myths around \'hearing loss\' and reclaims deafness as a cultural, linguistic and poetic space ... One of the most powerful threads in the book is Antrobus’s exploration of his Jamaican-British identity as a deaf man ... Laced with humour or quiet resistance ... The relationship with and loss of his father are rendered with aching honesty, shadowed by violence and alcoholism ... In counterpoint, the passages about his young son are luminous with patience and play ... A moving reflection on inheritance ... Antrobus writes with exquisite rhythm and restraint ... A moving and essential work ... A quiet revolution.
