With unnerving rapidity, books are on their way to becoming a countercultural medium-one whose insistence on focus and complexity, on the slow building of story and argument, stands against so much else that daily assaults our eyes and ears.
Catton was the youngest recipient of the Booker Prize for her previous novel, The Luminaries (which also had the longest page count of any winner in the award's history). She returns now with a work that is both dramatically energetic and attuned to the political concerns of our moment.
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