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Köp båda 2 för 349 krThe death-throes of a colonial world captured in dark, obsessive prose, punctuated by images of strange, surreal beauty. One thinks at times of both Coetzee and Gordimer, but Kitamura is very much her own writer -- Salman Rushdie Beautifully observed ... the cumulative effect of this shocking, desperate book is something that approaches magnificent * FT * Kitamura is in complete control, both of the prose and of the story it carries. She is a skilled hunter and we are her helpless prey -- Teju Cole * Open City * A stark, urgent, beautiful novel. The characters and images continue to haunt me, a tribute to their lasting emotional power and their creator's extraordinary gifts -- Siri Hustvedt, author of 'The Summer Without Men' A ruthless, controlled style distinguishes this novel ... [Kitamura's] style reminds one of Marguerite Duras and Herta Muller - power is the subject, and the execution is precise * The Daily Beast * A mesmerizing novel, one whose force builds inexorably as its story unfolds in daring, unexpected strokes. Kitamura's prose brings to mind Cormac McCarthy or Jean Rhys, but the music of these lines is all her own - lyrical, sharp-edged, spare, and unafraid. Be warned: you'll find yourself reading long past midnight, out of breath and wide awake. This is a bold and powerful book. -- Julie Orringer, author of The Invisible Bridge I have been in a daze ever since I finished this book. Gone to the Forest is superb. It is so beautifully written, so balanced - there isn't a spare sentence or word in the whole thing ... Utterly distinctive. Kitamura is one of the best living writers I've read, and she gives the dead ones a run for their money. -- Evie Wyld, author of After the Fire, A Still Small Voice Hemingway's returned to life - and this time, he's a woman -- Tom McCarthy, author of C, Remainder and Men in Space A relentless fever dream, each perfectly pared paragraph urging you on to the next -- Ed Park, author of Personal Days There is nothing better on earth, fictive or not, than What Goes Wrong on the Plantation, and in Gone to the Forest it goes totally and splendidly wrong. -- Padgett Powell Evokes a Conradian Heart of Darkness portentousness . . . flashes of unexpected beauty . . . Like the intricate ingenuity of the floating farm flush with the golden fish, Gone to the Forest, in just 200 pages, floats, unfolds and astonishes. -- Marie Myung-Ok Lee * San Francisco Chronicle * In a restrained voice Ms. Kitamura offers echoes of J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, coolly chronicling the family's undoing as it tracks against the political turmoil ripping through the nation. -- Susannah Meadows * New York Times * Gone to the Forest is Katie Kitamura's second novel, about a family and the cost of European colonization in an unknown time and place... that recalls, at first and most often, J.M. Coetzee's South Africa. Kitamura writes with fine tension and clipped grace. Her observations are subtle and sharp. The volcano's importance in the story evokes Aime Cesaire's poem Corps Perdu, which begins, "Moi, qui Krakatoa . . ." and is a soaring command, in the wake of decolonization, for "the islands to be." [She is a] rising literary star. -- Samantha Kuok Leese * Spectator * Striking . . . Beautifully written . . . Kitamura's carefully wrought characters are captivating. * Hyphen Magazine * In this wondrous tale of both a family and a country's dissolution, Kitamura brings readers into an unspecified time in an unnamed colonial country . . . Kitamura, with spare, mesmerizing prose, paints a memorable vision of emotional chaos echoed by geologic and political turmoil. [Starred review] * Publishers Weekly * Kitamura's words are tough, and her characters are tied to the tails of wounded beasts: mother countries, the land itself, and hierarchies both out of steam and out of date . . . Kitamura makes the end of history - many histories - seem both casual and immediate. -- Sasha Frere-Jones * NewYorker.c
Katie Kitamura is based in New York and London. She has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, Wired and the Guardian. She was a finalist in the 2010 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award for her debut novel, The Longshot.