Inland

FEATURED ON BARACK OBAMA`S SUMMER READING LIST: `THOSE OF YOU WHO`VE BEEN WAITING FOR OBREHT`S NEXT NOVEL WON`T BE DISAPPOINTED` `SPECTACULAR` - Guardian `A WONDER` - Daily Mail `SPARKLING` - The Times `EXQUISITE` - Observer `MAGNIFICENT` - TLS `EPIC` - Entertainment Weekly `A TRIUMPH` - LitHub `INFECTIOUS` - Financial Times `A MASTERPIECE` - Sunday Express Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life, biding her time with her youngest son - who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home - and her husband`s seventeen-year-old cousin, who communes with spirits. Lurie is a former outlaw and a man haunted by ghosts. He sees lost souls who want something from him, and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected relationship that inspires a momentous expedition across the West. Mythical, lyrical, and sweeping in scope, Inland is grounded in true but little-known history. It showcases all of Téa Obreht`s talents as a writer, as she subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West, making them entirely - and unforgettably - her own. `This free-ranging tale of an American frontierswoman should have been on the Booker longlist... I`m already looking forward to whatever Obreht writes next` - Claire Lowdon, Sunday Times `Magnificent... Brings to mind Gabriel García Márquez`s One Hundred Years of Solitude or Toni Morrison`s Beloved` - Times Literary Supplement `Exquisite ... The historical detail is immaculate, the landscape exquisitely drawn, the prose is hard, muscular, more convincingly Cormac McCarthy than McCarthy himself... [The] paranormal element reminds us strongly of George Saunders`s Lincoln in the Bardo ... Inland also feels of a piece with another recent novel, Sarah Perry`s Melmoth` - Alex Preston, Observer