Southerly

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"Employing a language that is sharp, concise and visceral, it proves his talent as a natural storyteller and as a social chronicler and poet of some refinement." -Morning Star

"There is a timeless quality to Consiglio's prose...a storyteller of rare ingenuity." -Splice

"Glimmering." -Publishers Weekly

"[Consiglio] carves out a singular space by focusing on characters who do not quite have a place of their own." -Full Stop

"His stories are told with dispassionate realism while being varnished with a surrealist gloss, creating his own in-between style...Occasional poetic turns reminiscent of Pablo Neruda erupt within the narrative." -Culture Trip

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Praise for Jorge Consiglio

"A moving testament to the beauty and banality of human relationships." -Publishers Weekly

"A masterpiece that refuses to stay still." -Culture Trip

"Fate could be likened to a pointillist painting by Seurat, with each dab of colour and each descriptive passage contributing to what is finally a beautifully structured and brilliantly shimmering whole." -New York Magazine (The Strategist UK)

"In the realm of fiction, an author has total authority over their characters, and they can inject interactions with meaning and pattern-play in a way therapists warn us not to in our day to day lives. It takes a particular level of craftsmanship to do this at the level of the sentence, with the effortlessness that Consiglio seamlessly achieves, and to sweep a reader so tenderly into the progress." -White Review

"A muted and unhurried novel that insists on the validity of the imperfect present." -Kirkus

"The beauty of this novel...is that it provides no answers, but many questions. It can be reflected upon, re-read, and reconsidered." -BookBlast

"The language of Fate has teeth and claws." -Books and Bao

"Fate is a rich tapestry of language, a sharp depiction of the vagaries of fate and a thoughtful meditation on the human condition." -The Monthly Booking

"Consiglio's writing aches with poetry through its attention and complexity." -The Skinny

"Packed full of sensuality and written in fresh, candid prose." -The Quietus

"Employing a language that is sharp, concise and visceral, it proves his talent as a natural storyteller and as a social chronicler and poet of some refinement." -Morning Star

"There is a timeless quality to Consiglio's prose...a storyteller of rare ingenuity." -Splice

"His stories are told with dispassionate realism while being varnished with a surrealist gloss, creating his own in-between style...Occasional poetic turns reminiscent of Pablo Neruda erupt within the narrative." -Culture Trip

"[Consiglio] carves out a singular space by focusing on characters who do not quite have a place of their own." -Full Stop