Inland: The New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of The Tiger's Wife - Hardcover

Obreht, Tea

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9780297867067: Inland: The New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of The Tiger's Wife

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ISBN 10: 0297867067 ISBN 13: 9780297867067

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019

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FEATURED ON BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST:
'THOSE OF YOU WHO'VE BEEN WAITING FOR OBREHT'S NEXT NOVEL WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED'

'SPECTACULAR' Guardian
'A WONDER' Daily Mail
'SPARKLING' The Times
'EXQUISITE' Observer
'MAGNIFICENT' TLS
'EPIC' Entertainment Weekly
'A TRIUMPH' LitHub
'INFECTIOUS' Financial Times
'A MASTERPIECE' Sunday Express

Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life, biding her time with her youngest son - who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home - and her husband's seventeen-year-old cousin, who communes with spirits.

Lurie is a former outlaw and a man haunted by ghosts. He sees lost souls who want something from him, and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected relationship that inspires a momentous expedition across the West.

Mythical, lyrical, and sweeping in scope, Inland is grounded in true but little-known history. It showcases all of T�a Obreht's talents as a writer, as she subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West, making them entirely - and unforgettably - her own.

'This free-ranging tale of an American frontierswoman should have been on the Booker longlist... I'm already looking forward to whatever Obreht writes next' Claire Lowdon, Sunday Times

'Magnificent... Brings to mind Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude or Toni Morrison's Beloved' Times Literary Supplement

'Exquisite ... The historical detail is immaculate, the landscape exquisitely drawn; the prose is hard, muscular, more convincingly Cormac McCarthy than McCarthy himself... [The] paranormal element reminds us strongly of George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo ... Inland also feels of a piece with another recent novel, Sarah Perry's Melmoth' Alex Preston, Observer

PRAISE FOR THE TIGER'S WIFE
'The most thrilling discovery in years' Colum McCann
'Assured, eloquent and not easily forgotten' Independent on Sunday
'A poignant, seductive novel' Observer
'One of the most extraordinary debuts of recent memory' Vogue

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Review:

A tremendously talented writer (Ann Patchett)

Magnificent . . . brings to mind similar effects in, say, Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude or Toni Morrison's Beloved. (Times Literary Supplement)

This free-ranging tale of an American frontierswoman should have been on the Booker longlist... I'm already looking forward to whatever Obreht writes next. (Claire Lowdon Sunday Times)

This exquisite frontier tale from the author of The Tiger's Wife is a timely exploration of the darkness beneath the American dream ... The historical detail is immaculate, the landscape exquisitely drawn; the prose is hard, muscular, more convincingly Cormac McCarthy than McCarthy himself ... [The] paranormal element reminds us strongly of George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo ... Inland also feels of a piece with another recent novel, Sarah Perry's Melmoth, a brilliantly eerie gothic tale in which the horrors of history are condensed into a single ghostly figure (Alex Preston Observer)

[Obreht] has used the little-known existence of the Camel Corps as the inspiration for Inland, her propulsive second novel ... Infectious storytelling ... Obreht is as engrossing with her depiction of the colourful and disparate encounters experienced by Lurie and Burke as she is on the claustrophobia of small-town rivalries (Catherine Taylor Financial Times)

It's a voyage of hilarious and harrowing adventures, told in the irresistible voice of a restless, superstitious man determined to live right but tormented by his past. At times, it feels as though Obreht has managed to track down Huck Finn years after he lit out for the Territory and found him riding a camel. She has such a perfectly tuned ear for the simple poetry of Lurie's vision... Sip slowly, make it last. (Ron Charles Washington Post)

Set against a backdrop of hardship and saturated with magic and myth, this ambitious novel is a modern masterpiece, culminating in an unforgettable ending (Rosie Hopegood Sunday Express)

"Obreht is the kind of writer who can forever change the way you think about a thing, just through her powers of description . . . Inland is an ambitious and beautiful work about many things: immigration, the afterlife, responsibility, guilt, marriage, parenthood, revenge, all the roads and waterways that led to America. Miraculously, it's also a page-turner and a mystery, as well as a love letter to a camel, and, like a camel, improbable and splendid, something to happily puzzle over at first and take your breath away at the end. (Elizabeth McCracken O Magazine)

Obreht is superb at tracing such inescapable wounds, both personal and national. Her 2011 Orange prize-winning debut, The Tiger's Wife, mapped the aftermath of civil conflict in an unnamed "Balkan country still scarred by war", which was based on her native Serbia ... The fictional territory of Inland is as vivid and as violent: Arizona in the second half of the 19th century, populated by "cowpokes and prospectors", gunslingers and cattle kings - and, yes, cameleers ... Exquisitely panoramic ... compelling ... On every page gorgeously tinted images conjure the otherworldliness of this desert existence ... Obreht's narrative skill here is part of the magic of Inland, which succeeds spectacularly at reinventing a well-worn genre and its tropes. There are no stereotypes in this western, only ferociously adroit writing that honours the true strangeness of reality in its search for the meaning of home (Elizabeth Lowry The Guardian)

As it should be, the landscape of the West itself is a character, thrillingly rendered throughout... Here, Obreht's simple but rich prose captures and luxuriates in the West's beauty and sudden menace. Remarkable in a novel with such a sprawling cast, Obreht also has a poetic touch for writing intricate and precise character descriptions. (New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice))

Book Description:

THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE TIGER'S WIFE
A man searching for a home he can't find. A woman bound to a home she can't leave.

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