PositiveFinancial Times (UK)Against the odds, Tulathimutte renders these losers sympathetic—or at least believably human ... The collection’s sharpest stories slice sexual rejection in multiple ways ... The breezy, studied aloofness of the book’s language belies its emotional and intellectual reserves ... Rejection is perversely funny and piercingly perceptive, but wearying, too. It mercilessly skewers the logic of the internet without ever entirely breaking free from it; there’s no transcendence here, just so much misery.
Andrey Kurkov, trans. Boris Dralyuk
RaveThe Financial TimesThe book moves with the swift purposefulness of a procedural ... Translated from the Russian by poet Boris Dralyuk, Kurkov’s prose is brisk but capacious, with a quiet flair ... And though it is clear-eyed in its depiction of war’s sheer senselessness, The Silver Bone has an unusual poetic lightness too.
