There is great wisdom, along with dark history, in these pages, for those ready to take on the challenge... E.E.G. reveals Drndic as a writer and thinker of ever greater relevance, a voice whose wide-ranging screeds we ignore at our peril. * Guardian * Funny, angry, informed and intent on the truth, no voice is quite as blisteringly beautiful as that of Daa Drndic . . . a major literary artist, a truthteller and custodian of the collective memory of forgotten European Jews * Financial Times * Her work is of such power and scope that had she remained alive, she would have been a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature * L.A. Review of Books * Her incisive skill and radical style render potentially grim reading compulsive. She was a voice of - and for - our times * T.L.S. * One of the handful of truly great artists of our beleaguered epoch, her historically-based, semi-autobiographical fictions are as exhilarating as they are disturbing; dense, profound and extraordinarily readable * Calvert Journal * Drndic will be remembered for her outspokenness, her refusal to be quiet, her interrogation of history, and her exploration of difficult or taboo topics * White Review * E.E.G. is a monument against the common notion that political convictions soften with age, as you learn to let the world off the hook. Neither Drndic nor her books did any such thing. * Harper's Review * This is a novel of ideas but also of exquisite poetry . . . An elegant search for lost time and a fitting valediction by a superb writer. * Kirkus * Reading Daa Drndic is not for the fainthearted. Anger radiates from Drndic's pages, and perhaps the book's greatest strength is the way in which it gives a voice to those people who are unable to tell their own stories. * Guardian * Drndic has in her own way composed an astonishment that extracts light from darkness * The Jewish Daily Forward * The formidable Daa Drndic has created something like a modern-day Homeric narrative of wars that are anything but glorious. In Celia Hawkesworth, she has a translator of genius who shares her vision. It is difficult to suggest a contemporary English-language novel with which to compare it, or one that might even approach its eloquence and daring. * Los Angeles Review of Books * It has become blurb fodder to describe a writer as "essential", but in the case of Daa Drndic this can be said with seriousness and certainty . . . Read everything by her. -- Ronan Hession
