Review:
A great book and a marvellously crafted story. I loved the different angles, the images and the depiction of the Roma. This is life without being sentimental or defensive. (Roddy Doyle)
¿If a writer's highest calling is to imagine what it is to be ¿other¿, then Colum McCann is a giant amongst us - fearless, huge-hearted, a poet with every living breath¿ (Peter Carey)
¿I review a great many Roma-themed manuscripts for publishers, but none has ever moved me as profoundly as the haunting story of Zoli. With its stark imagery it takes one deep into the heart of World War II Europe¿ (Ian Hancock Director of Romani Archives, Universtiy of Texas)
Zoli is an assiduously crafted and beautifully haunting story of Europe from one of Ireland's very best novelists. Every book from Colum Mc Cann extends his range and excavates new territories. He is an audacious and wonderfully skilled writer (Joseph O'Connor)
McCann's strongest suit is his brilliant ability to recreate a remote world and era...a worthy addition to the growing literature of Roma life. (Michael Arditti DAILY MAIL (8.9.06))
It is here that McCann's novel transcends its surface manifestation as an historical novel and reveals itself for what it is - an unblinking meditation on the significance, value and challenge of cultural diversity. It is a novel about now and here, about how we cope - or fail to cope - with the others or Others in our midst....McCann's novel is a rare feat (Gerry Dukes IRISH INDEPENDENT (9.9.06))
This is a haunting and lyrical story, well written and researched. (TIMES (9.9.06))
This beautifully written, heartfelt book is both compelling and moving from start to finish; a true page-turner that is unafraid to face the darker sides of life while evoking the joys and kindnesses that surprise and sustain us all. (WATERSTONE'S BOOKS QUARTERLY)
McCann intelligently poses complicated questions about immigration and identity that are deeply relevant today. His prose is sharp and scintillatingly sensual, and the final moment in which Zolo finally rediscovers herself is incontrovertibly moving...[a] beautiful, thoughtful novel. (Ed Wood INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY (17.9.06))
McCann is as fine, and persuasive, a storyteller as any other working in English today...Much more could be said about the beauty and subtle judgement of this, McCann's finest novel, but what emerges most powerfully is a sense of compassion, even identification, with a people, who, because of the stories told about them, only need appear on a country road to inspire hatred and fear from their fellow man. (John Burnside THE SCOTSMAN (16.9.06))
Book Description:
A major new novel about a gypsy woman exiled for betraying her people, from the prize-winning author of DANCER
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