This book's beautiful, gold-fissured jacket, designed by Jamie Keenan, pays tribute to [kintsugi]... Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia have produced a supremely elegant translation... There are fascinating disquisitions here into cultural difference, language, illness, fear and grief
TLS
Traversing languages and cultures, decades and generations, Fracture unites its many fragments to form a powerful and redemptive vision of ... Read morea single, and unbroken, human life. A searching, humane, and vital novel
Eleanor Catton One of the things I love about Andrés Neuman's work is how he restores writing as the most powerful source of knowledge. This dazzling and devastating novel is a terrific demonstration of that
Alejandro Zambra It is impossible to classify Andrés Neuman: each of his books is a new language adventure, guided by the intelligence and the pleasure of words. He never ceases to surprise us and is, doubtlessly, one of the most daring writers in Latin American literature, willing to change, challenge and explore, always with a unique elegance
Mariana Enriquez Andres Neuman is a born storyteller. Fracture is a deeply generous, wise and resonant novel that glides effortlessly between the intimate and the global, the tragic and the comic, all underpinned by Neuman's electric, ludic intelligence. If you are about to turn the first page, you are very lucky - a reader on the threshold of a book that in the most wonderful of ways will enrich and enlarge your life
Owen Sheers Neuman's striking novel weaves a tapestry of life and society since Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, as told through the story of the wanderer and electronics executive Mr. Watanabe, the legacy of his childhood trauma, and the women around the globe who loved him. Rich in detail, political as well as personal, from the foibles of language to economic decline, the world the characters inhabit is constantly shifting underfoot, and the act of remembering emerges as a shore on which to stand and face the sands of time. A finely wrought, beautifully translated novel'
Saskia Vogel Fracture is a big novel... with an impressive variety of styles and voices...beautifully written... a powerful, absorbing work
Tony’s Reading List
Fascinating ... An ambitious book, written with flair, wit and elegance, it's a masterful tale of personal and communal catastrophes that even so being a sense of hope in uncertain times
Morning Star
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