Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger - Hardcover

"["Montecore" is] funny, ambitious, and inventive. Also black: rage and tragedy pulse beneath the fireworks...a potent chemical mix." -- "The New York Times Book Review
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"To those whose experience of Swedish fiction has been as bleak as Nordic winter, "Montecore" arrives as a sunny revelation. An exuberant account...the novel in fact challenges assumptions about Swedish identity...[A] rollicking tale." --Barnes & Noble

""Montecore "is brilliant. Like its title--an invented creolized noun equal parts Arabic, French, Swedish, Siegfried & Roy, and Dungeons & Dragons--Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novel is itself a thrillingly hybrid creature: an immigrant story, a coming-of-age tale, an epistolary epic, an indictment of Swedish racism and nationalism, a meditation on storytelling and translation. . .Above all, however, this is a beautiful nove

"["Montecore" is] funny, ambitious, and inventive. Also black: rage and tragedy pulse beneath the fireworks...a potent chemical mix." -- "The New York Times Book Review
"
"To those whose experience of Swedish fiction has been as bleak as Nordic winter, "Montecore" arrives as a sunny revelation. An exuberant account...the novel in fact challenges assumptions about Swedish identity...[A] rollicking tale." --Barnes & Noble

""Montecore "is brilliant. Like its title--an invented creolized noun equal parts Arabic, French, Swedish, Siegfried & Roy, and Dungeons & Dragons--Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novel is itself a thrillingly hybrid creature: an immigrant story, a coming-of-age tale, an epistolary epic, an indictment of Swedish racism and nationalism, a meditation on storytelling and translation. . .Above all, however, this is a beautiful novel, a bewitching novel, as funny as it is heartbreaking, as self-aware as it is self-effacing, and certainly the best book that I'

"Funny, ambitious, and inventive. Also black: rage and tragedy pulse beneath the fireworks a potent chemical mix." "The New York Times Book Review
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"A hard-hitting and resonant tale of the modern immigrant experience in Sweden." "The Boston Globe
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""Montecore" brings a metafictional slyness to the kind of immigrant narrative that many Americans will immediately recognize with its elements of aspiration, disillusion, and filial rebellion...[It's] ambitious in the best sense." "New York Journal of Books
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""Montecore" deals in the sparkling tropes pf contemporary fiction but very successfully grounds them in old-fashioned familial anguish. With style to spare and a keen take on the political turmoil of a region recently thrown into high-media focus, "Montecore" shows a young novelist swinging for the fences and hitting hard."

"To those whose experience of Swedish fiction has been as bleak as Nordic winter, "Montecore" arrives as a sunny revelation. An exuberant account the novel in fact challenges assumptions about Swedish identity [A] rollicking tale." Barnes & Noble

""Montecore "is brilliant. Like its title an invented creolized noun equal parts Arabic, French, Swedish, Siegfried & Roy, and Dungeons & Dragons Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novel is itself a thrillingly hybrid creature: an immigrant story, a coming-of-age tale, an epistolary epic, an indictment of Swedish racism and nationalism, a meditation on storytelling and translation. . .Above all, however, this is a beautiful novel, a bewitching novel, as funny as it is heartbreaking, as self-aware as it is self-effacing, and certainly the best book that I've read in a long time." Rattawut Lapcharoensap, author of "Sightseeing
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"[A] vibrant story of culture, class, and family history enlivened by Khemiri s subtle wit and voice."
"Publishers Weekly
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"Amusing and multilayered. . .Khemiri adds a distinctive and quirky voice actually several of them to contemporary literature." "Kirkus" (starred)"

Jonas Hassen Khemiri, born in Sweden in 1978, is the author of two novels and one collection of plays and short stories. His first novel, "One Eye Red," received the Boras Tidning Award for best literary debut. His second, "Montecore," won several literary awards including the Swedish Radio Award for best novel of the year. Khemiri has also received the PO Enquist Literary Prize for the most promising young European writer. He currently divides his time between Stockholm and Berlin.