RaveTimes Literary Supplement (UK)Philosophically motivated lyrical ... The characters’ thoughts mix and flow with the colours and light. Beauty doesn’t come from goodness but from aliveness ... Sumptuously written.
Shehan Karunatilaka
RaveTimes Literary Supplement (UK)Brilliant ... A rollicking magic-realist take on a recent bloody period in Sri Lankan history, set in an unpeaceful afterlife. It is messy and chaotic in all the best ways. It is also a pleasure to read: Karunatilaka writes with tinder-dry wit and an unfaltering ear for prose cadences ... Karunatilaka’s words are as eloquent as pictures ... The technique produces a narrative that is both punctuated and leisurely ... The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida burns unremittingly both with its love of country and with anger for what that country has endured.
Claire Fuller
RaveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)Fuller’s novels are ambitious ... Unsettled Ground takes on other singular existences with equal adroitness ... As in her other novels, Fuller explores what founding myths look like from other perspectives. Her understanding of the stories we tell ourselves in order to keep going, of the details we see but refuse to look at, allows her to produce complex, layered fictions that teach readers to be wary. Here, the treacheries of telling underpin a novel that makes the texture of poverty and homelessness palpable ... A sculptor by training, Fuller has a keen eye for how things fall apart.
Claire Fuller
RaveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)Fuller’s novels are ambitious ... Unsettled Ground takes on other singular existences with equal adroitness ... As in her other novels, Fuller explores what founding myths look like from other perspectives. Her understanding of the stories we tell ourselves in order to keep going, of the details we see but refuse to look at, allows her to produce complex, layered fictions that teach readers to be wary. Here, the treacheries of telling underpin a novel that makes the texture of poverty and homelessness palpable ... A sculptor by training, Fuller has a keen eye for how things fall apart.
