More Praise for Deborah Levy’s Early Novels
“It throbs its way into the imagination like the unguided missile it decries.”
—The Observer on Beautiful Mutants
“A bold debut; the arrival of a fractured fictional world in which characters spoke in riddles, dissolved and remade themselves, attracted and repelled one another and us, against a highly textured backdrop of images and objects. It was antagonistic, provocative fiction, made to describe and to flourish in Europe’s geopolitical cracks.”
—The Guardian on Beautiful Mutants
“Audacious.”
—Publishers Weekly on Beautiful Mutants
“[Levy’s] prose veers from dreamlike reverie to bald aggression in the turn of a sentence, never resting … The macabre and the lyrical pile up and cry out with urgency … Allows for a deeper appreciation of Levy’s distinctive sensibility.”
—KGB Bar Lit Magazine on Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography
“The two picaresque novels … glimmer with dazzling flashes of fantasy and surreality … These exercises in the literary avant-garde resonate with moving reflections on exile and alienation.”
—Publishers Weekly on Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography
“Surrealistic … Luminously precise … A vortex of shifting subjectivity … Accomplished … The prose is lean, unencumbered, and at its best in moments of pure lyricism … You can respond to Deborah Levy’s vision either intellectually or sensually.”
—The Independent on Swallowing Geography
“Cerebral and literary … Very smart … and unfailingly unsentimental.”
—New York Journal of Books on The Unloved
“Brave and brilliant.”
—The Independent on The Unloved
“A startling work … Levy’s world is horrifyingly violent, but she describes this dead European culture with a compelling, cool precision, always paring her language, never judging.”
—The Times on The Unloved
“Impressively ambitious … Unusual and memorable.”
—The Times Literary Supplement on The Unloved
“Levy’s approach is cerebral and unsentimental, exploring, in prose both sensuous and supple, the sadness and perplexity of children, the unsatisfied desires of adults, and, above all, the power and role of love. Graphic, claustrophobic and fractured, this is emotionally violent and challenging work from a bold modern writer.”
—Kirkus Reviews on The Unloved