RaveAir MailIt is a testament to Rooney’s considerable talent that in novel after novel her characters also feel very real to us and linger long after we close the book
Claire Messud
RaveAir MailSprawling ... Itself no less ambitious in sweep and scope, spans seven decades from 1940 to 2010, and chronicles in a stunning, meticulous prose three generations of the Cassar family as they whirl about the globe ... Messud insightfully explores the complex themes of conflicting claims of identity, the trauma of rootlessness, the power of family secrets to corrupt and corrode across generations ... Poignant.
Clare Carlisle
RaveAir MailIntriguing, often brilliant ... Ultimately, Carlisle’s thoughtful, comprehensive account of this particular liaison exquisitely probes the complex, thorny, and fascinating question: How much does our choice of partner determine who we ultimately become?
Michael Finkel
RaveAir MailExhilarating ... [A] meticulously detailed, page-turning account ... Finkel’s narrative interweaves gripping descriptions of Breitweiser’s in-plain-sight thefts armed with nothing more than stealth and a Swiss Army knife, a concise history of global art theft, and psychologists’ musings on Breitwieser’s unconscious motivations.
Elena Ferrante, tr. Ann Goldstein
RaveAir Mail... engaging, slyly disruptive ... expertly translated ... All the more reason it is such a pleasure to read in these pages an intimate account of Ferrante’s development as a woman who writes.
Gianfranco Calligarich, tr. Howard Curtis
RaveAir MailMasterfully translated ... The novel is indeed very visual ... [A] short, eminently readable novel ... Despite the exquisite chatter surrounding Proust and decadence, Chandler and despair, the reigning voice in this novel is silence ... The novel feels as relevant today as it ever was.
Tim Parks
RaveAir Mail... a fresh, intriguing, environmentally sensitive, oddly endearing account ... What adds considerable interest to this idiosyncratic twinned pilgrimage is the very colorful cast of characters ... Easily the most compelling of this crew is the extraordinary Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro da Silva, better known as Anita Garibaldi ... Garibaldi’s genuine adoration and respect for her, nimbly emphasized in Parks’s account, palpably reveals how much of a force Anita was in the formation and drive behind the Garibaldian notion of freedom ... Sometimes sauntering, sometimes marching, sometimes in places of great beauty, sometimes in industrial wastelands, we join the rhythm of the conjoined marches, sinking into their cadences, lilts, pulses, and patterns.
