The Vision Of Elena Silves
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407074566
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
A story of love and insurrection brilliantly told-a remarkable debut-one of the best books about the continent written by an outsider
Sunday Times
An Englishman's novel of magic realism, flavoured with the more traditional English spices such as thriller and tourchsong, and a touch of Anglo-Saxon irony-a fine literary novel, combining several traditions and genres of fiction
The Times
A novel of action in the best tradition of Conrad and Greene-Love, violence, revolution and death-a d-nouement that is unexpected, shocking and brilliantly conceived-I closed the novel with both satisfaction and regret
Literary Review
'The Vision of Elena Silves is a terrific novel'
John Sutherland, London Review of Books
'Written with precision, clarity and rare beauty-Alongside Salman Rushdie and the late Bruce Chatwin, Shakespeare now joins the ranks of the New Exotics school'
Robert Carver, New Statesman