- Published: 3 April 2014
- ISBN: 9781448156276
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 192
Diary of the Fall
- Published: 3 April 2014
- ISBN: 9781448156276
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 192
I have already found a contender for my book of 2014
Nick Barley, Herald
Robustly delicate… This is the Brazilian author’s fifth novel, and the first to be translated into English. Let’s hope for more to follow
Bookseller
This riveting read challenges how we choose to tell others our life story and how events make us into the people we are. A top, quick read
Nimmi Maghera-Rakhra, Sun
A work of immense incantatory power
Neel Mukherjee, Literary Review
Astonishingly powerful ... Diary of a Fall may well emerge as one of the finest novels published in English this year
Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
A gripping, thoughtful novel... Laub beautifully retrieves the tragedy of the holocaust from its scholarship, politics and deniers, cutting to the bone of human life, its longings and limitations
Tabish Khair, Independent
A powerful novel
Katie Archer, UK Press Syndication
Utterly convincing... An original and thought-provoking exploration of the way history casts its ripples through generations
Bookmunch
[A] powerful and nuanced novel… Elegantly translated… It is both timely and gratifying to see one of the country’s outstanding writers come to the attention of an English-language readership
Ángel Gurría-Quintana, Financial Times
The novel succeeds in talking about the horror of horrors because of the illuminating prism through which it is rendered, and because of its compassion, intelligence and respect
Grace McCleen, Independent on Sunday
[A] remarkable novel
Independent on Sunday
A fine, complex piece of writing
New Statesman
Extraordinary... In my world, this novel is already a classic
Karl Ove Knausgaard
A powerful exploration of memory and guilt
Guardian
Laub has crafted a book not only about the power of memory but also about moving on from suffering and taking responsibility for our own actions, and for the people we become
Billy O’Callaghan, Irish Examiner
Laub is trying to create both an incantatory effect and gradually excavate the past; he succeeds brilliantly… A gripping, thoughtful novel, fluidly translated… Laub beautifully retrieves the tragedy of the holocaust from its scholarship, politics and deniers, cutting to the bone of human life, its longings and limitations.
Tabish Khair, Irish Independent