- Published: 15 October 2012
- ISBN: 9780099516934
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $19.99
Desolation Island
- Published: 15 October 2012
- ISBN: 9780099516934
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $19.99
An adventure story...extravagantly enthralling
Michael Kerrigan, Times Literary Supplement
Desolation Island has all the characteristics of a postmodern classic...has all the elements of the classic adventure novel, from The Odyssey to Moby Dick
El País
An ambitious and successful novel that confronts the reader with important questions: love, death, identity, evil...
El Periodico
Rarely has fiction been so truthful. Rarely has reading been so vital and so absorbing
La Vanguardia
A wonderful novel... We are between Odysseus' journey, the kernel of the epic novel, and Melville's Moby Dick... This novel aims to go to the heart of literature, to take up once more the almost extinguished call of ancient and contemporary heroes
ABC
It's a rich, complicated, eccentric gumbo of a book... An epic tale of the restless journeys of the mind
Metro
Ortega's energy and relentless inventiveness succeed in creating a seamless and utterly compelling blend of the past and the present, the real and the imaginary. A Bolaño-like encyclopaedia...the literary equivalent of a Renaissance cabinet of curiosities... One of the most original novels to have appeared in Spain in recent years, Desolation Island is ultimately a magnificent tale of travel
Literary Review
A good old-fashioned mariner’s adventure – though bursting with postmodern strangeness
Holly Kyte, Sunday Telegraph