RaveThe Telegraph (UK)\"It\'s eight years since Obreht\'s debut, The Tiger\'s Wife, made her the youngest winner of the Orange Prize. Inland, her second novel, is an equally skilful exploration of myth and fable, and histories both forgotten and elaborated ... Oberht packs a great deal into this narrative and the result is difficult, knotty novel, that both needs – and rewards – persistence. But while Inland may feel complex and overladen, its ambition is part of the point. Despite the piled up details and the shuttling time frames the book, not unlike that camel on the Texas dockside, keeps moving forwards – freighted, intense, but \'rolling steady, like a dream making itself up\' as it goes.\
