Telex from Cuba

Multi-layered and absorbing... Kushner's style is sure and sharp, studded with illuminating images

New York Times Book Review

A pure treat from the cover to the very last page

Washington Post

A stunner of a novel... A fluid, eye-opening symphony of a book

Seattle Times

With its sharp detail and precisely drawn characters, Telex from Cuba offers a compelling look at a paradise corrupted

People

Telex from Cuba elegantly weaves together a gripping story of individuals and their lives leading up to one of the most notorious revolutions of the twentieth century

Time Out New York

Fresh and compelling. Kushner takes us to a place and time we've seldom visited before

San Francisco Chronicle

A lush, meticulous, cinematic debut novel

Elle

Rachel Kushner’s debut novel is an absolute blinder... Like the sea which surrounds Cuba, Telex From Cuba is ever-shifting, and it is luminous

The Times

If you relish glittering language that pursues emotional and political truth, you'll be enthralled by Telex from Cuba... the atmosphere seethes and crackles... [a] lush, intoxicating book

Independent

Telex from Cuba is epic and enjoyable: the style is lush and precise; the parties and cookouts, the drinks and affairs are beautiful and poignant, full of the pleasures of wealth overshadowed by loss.

Anne Enright, Guardian

[Kushner's] cleverly counterposed registers and nuanced explanation of the way we make and remake ourselves elevates her book beyond the standard historical romp

David Annand, Sunday Telegraph

Detail-packed prose

Glasgow Herald

Kushner evokes a dreamlike paradise... A poignant tale

Antonia Charlesworth, Big Issue

A piece of fiction quite breathtaking in its assurance […] a beautifully weighted treatise on colonial attitudes, capitalism, racism and the interactions and divisions between cultures and classes

Billy O'Callaghan, Irish Examiner

Fascinating and vividly detailed... You can almost feel the heat radiating from the page: the air is mosquito-thick and tainted with a nickel oxide haze, the tropical landscape a character in its own right

Observer

Deeply evocative... A fascinating and vividly detailed portrait of the country

Natasha Tripney, Observer

An intriguing, multifaceted portrait of a society in flux

David Evans, Independent on Sunday

Massively compelling… Tough yet tender writing that throbs with history, nostalgia and love

Bath Chronicle

It begs for a big-screen adaptation

London Magazine

Telex from Cuba is a wonderful debut and essential reading for those who wish to follow the career of one of the best new writers of our generation

Stephen Joyce, Nudge

[Telex From Cuba] proves that this American author is a superstar of the future

Nick Barley, Herald

An epic, almost cinematic sweep of a vanished time and place

Christie Hickman, Sunday Express

A pure treat from the cover to the very last page

Washington Post

Mutli-layered and absorbing... Kushner's style is sure and sharp, studded with illuminating images... Kushner has fashioned a story that will linger like a whiff of decadent Colony perfume

New York Times Book Review

Fresh and compelling. Kushner takes us to a place and time we've seldom visited before

San Francisco Chronicle

A stunner of a novel... A fluid, eye-opening symphony of a book

Seattle Times

With its sharp detail and precisely drawn characters, Telex from Cuba offers a compelling look at a paradise corrupted

People

Telex from Cuba elegantly weaves together a gripping story of individuals and their lives leading up to one of the most notorious revolutions of the twentieth century

Time Out New York