A searing look at the urban subculture of New Zealand's native people

A starkly realistic account...as important, as frank, as powerful a book as [Alice Walker's The Color Purple] was for Americans

Impressive by any standard

A very good and varied collection, with delightful oddities

Unfailingly honest

Andric possess the rare gift in a historical novelist of creating a period-piece, full of local colour, and at the same time characters who might have been living today

Just as the bridge on the Drina brought East and West together so your work has acted as a link, combining the culture of your country with other parts of the planet