RaveThe Chicago Review of Books...[a] wholly original, incantatory novel ... The structural innovation of Solar Bones places it in conversation with Irish experimentalists ranging from Joyce and Beckett to McBride; yet the novel’s dense layers, preoccupation with contingency, and ability to successfully launch soaring philosophical ponderings from the quotidian also align it with the likes of Jenny Erpenbeck’s The End of Days, Per Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses, and even Richard McGuire’s acclaimed graphic novel Here, which catalogs events that transpire in one corner of a single room across millennia ... McCormack’s perceptive gaze, artful elucidations, and confident prose elevate the conceit to a captivating experience ... Solar Bones is a stunning outcry against human isolation and the 'cosmic odds stacked against this here-and-now.' It is a heartfelt hymn to the matchless shelter of love, singular in its stability, relentlessly singing us home.
Han Kang
RaveThe Washington Post\"Like Kang’s widely acclaimed novel The Vegetarian, the first of her works to be translated from Korean by Deborah Smith, Human Acts is ruthless in its refusal to look away from atrocity. Both slim, polyphonic novels stare down violence and vulnerability, cruelty and confusion ... Composed of astonishing images and visceral detail, Human Acts forces readers into achingly close contact not just with this instance of violence, but also the violence inherent to the human condition ... And yet the emotional intensity of Human Acts does not arise from its devastating depictions of violence alone. The novel also wrenches the heart with its surprising tenderness, its intimacy in the face of cruelty, and its insistence that beneath the darkest aspects of humanity, there is also a vein of inviolable love.\
