Sentences with phrase «remarkable debut novel»
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as «one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years» (Baltimore Sun), with «prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes» (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post called her «the twenty - first - century daughter of Chinua Achebe.»
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Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses is a remarkable debut novel that challenges and humanizes an age - old conflict we might think we understand - one that asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can't go home again.
You'd have a hard time finding a more dark and twisted main character than Jean - Baptiste Grenouille, the 18th - century French serial killer who stalks the pages of Suskind's remarkable debut novel.
This remarkable debut novel follows the growing friendship between students at the Roaring Orchards School for Troubled Teens.
Adapted by Rees and co-writer Virgil Williams from Hillary Jordan's remarkable debut novel, «Mudbound» captures more than the usual amount of detail from its source material, including much of the language itself.
Not exact matches
Our November book club column also highlights a debut novel and the latest from Malcolm Gladwell — but the top paperback release this month, according to columnist Julie Hale, is «a fascinating exploration of gender, history and female friendship» — Tracy Chevalier's Remarkable Creatures.
In this, only her second book, Catherine Ryan Howard has certainly pulled off, with remarkable confidence, the notoriously difficult task of surpassing a debut novel that was met with critical acclaim and garlanded with awards.»
With this remarkable debut, Charles Todd breaks new ground in the historical crime novel.»
A brilliant debut novel that captures the end of an era, the vast madness of war, and the courage of a remarkable woman to claim life from the grasp of death itself.
A startling debut novel featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent fiction: a conflicted subversive and idealist working as a double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War
Winner of the 2015 BookBrowse Debut Novel Award From a remarkable new voice in Southern fiction, a multigenerational saga of crime, family, and vengeance.
-- Clyde EdgertonIn his phenomenal debut novel — a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small North Carolina town — author Wiley Cash displays a remarkable talent for lyrical, powerfully emotional storytelling.
Written with the warmth and psychological acuity that defined his debut, Rumaan Alam has crafted a remarkable novel about the lives we choose, and the lives that are chosen for us.
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen A startling debut novel from a powerful new voice featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent fiction: a conflicted subversive and idealist working as a double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
After her remarkable debut, Gabrielle Zevin has crafted an imaginative second novel all about love and second chances.