Author:Atiq Rahimi,Sarah Maguire,Yama Yari
Kabul, 1979. A student wakes in an unfamiliar house, battered and bruised. He gradually recovers his mind to discover that returning from a night out he was brutally attacked by soldiers and left to die.
Farhad, the tragic hero of this nightmarish tale, realises that he can now never return home: to do so would be to risk the lives of his family. As he waits for an answer to his plight he learns the tragic story of the woman who has saved him, endangering her own life in the process, and begins to feel an impossible and forbidden love for her - a love that embodies an angry compassion for the suffering of Afghanistan's women, and the yearning for a lost home.
The novella is verbal photography...[it] seems the real thing...seamlessly translated
—— Russell Celyn Jones , The TimesA taut and brilliant burst of anguished prose...both a wonderful and a dreadful little book
—— GuardianA beautiful piece of writing
—— Ruth Pavey , IndependentShort but powerful...The beauty of the language lends this work a haunting clarity
—— The Herald[An] intimate gem of a story...bewitching
—— Scotland on SundayExquisitely crafted
—— Tariq Ali , Writers’ and Critics’ pick of 2006, GuardianWry and trenchant . . . highly entertaining.
—— The New York Times Book ReviewHis funniest book since Breakfast of Champions . . . There are nuggets of Vonnegutian wisdom throughout.
—— NewsweekTimequake is a novel by, and starring, Kurt Vonnegut . . . What Vonnegut does, which no one can do better, is give a big postmodern shrug . . . You've got to love him.
—— The Washington Post Book WorldHumorous, sardonic . . . Timequake makes for irresistible reading that's loaded with more important truths than it lets on . . . Moralizing has never been funnier.
—— Chicago Sun-TimesVonnegut is at his best.
—— Atlanta Journal & ConstitutionWonderfully readable
—— Wendy Cope , The WeekTranslators give their wits and craft selflessly in service of others' work; this is a triumph of fidelity and unpretentiousness.
—— The IndependentTom McCarthy's C... a novel blazing with energy and, for all its postmodern ambitions, a rich, old-fashioned yarn
—— Rosie Blau, on being a Booker judge , Financial TimesI surmise that it was because Tom McCarthy's C also hovers on an uneasy breaking-point, between fiction and philosophy, that I wanted it to win the Booker Man prize.
—— Andro Linklater , Spectator, Christmas round upMcCarthy's high-voltage writing runs through the reader like a charge.
—— Frances Wilson , Daily Telegraph, Christmas round upNew readers could grasp just how boldly he has tried to balance sumptuous period-fiction prose with a mischievous desire to sabotage his chosen form.
—— Boyd Tonkin , Independent, Christmas round upAn exciting, revealing and touching story
—— Lesley McDowell , Sunday Herald, Christmas round upThe novel's interest (or lack thereof) lies mainly in its stubborn refusal of anything resembling a narrative payoff...I loved it, right down to the prose, which, unspooling in a vaguely menacing present-continuous, sounds like screenplay instructions to a set designer
—— Anthony Cummins , The TimesA dazzlingly agile novel about the interconnectedness of things
—— MetroEntertaining as well as ambitious
—— The HeraldMcCarthy's descriptions of nature and of the everyday details of the era are vivid, surprising and true. And while the writing is often beautiful and ornate, the story has a bracing, Beckett-like severity
—— Irish Times
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