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“Rather than build up to an intense moment like this, Obreht opens the novel with a catastrophe.”
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“… “It’s not that D__’s poetry is equivalent to his copywriting, but that they have something important in common.”
“… “The novel opens up many pleasures for literary readers, in its pacing, in its observations, and especially in the ventriloquism of Havelock’s old-school prose (he even writes one letter in the obsolescent gay slang Polari).”
“* “Obreht flexes her skills as a literary writer who deploys a thriller’s pacing, the vivid description crucial for realistic historical fiction, and the steady, calm voice of a central narrator, our entry point into a multifaceted tale of abuse and generational trauma.”
“… “Like Brief History , The Disappearers offers a big, modernist assemblage of contrasting styles, personas, and points of view.”
“… “Until the final chapter of the novel, M and the narrator won’t meet again.”
“Men barrel ahead, truth be damned, in accordance with what they see as a larger goal—power, status, money, authority.”
“Obreht distinguishes herself as a spellbinding writer who recognizes the ways that mythologies bend the truth to dazzle us with stories that capture a larger history.”
“In some ways, the book feels like a return to Native Speaker , in that it emphasizes the American of Korean American assimilation.”
“And it’s control that remains elusive for the men in Obreht’s novels.”
“At camp, he recounts, the fibbing ‘went on and on, so much so that it became a tic, a compulsion from deep within me that was bent on dark invention.’ In this way, the novel is an exploration of a theme threading through all of Lee’s books: that people, especially the displaced children of immigrants, often look to find versions of themselves in other people.”
“But isn’t that so often the fate of the novelist?”
“Sunrise begins with a plane crash in 2024.”
“She earns our confidence with flinty characters who escape easy moral stances.”
“… “What may feel like a puzzle in these pages is in many ways an accordion.”
“Obreht allows the stories of both the past and the present to speak for themselves as connections surface throughout the course of the book.”