The End

Reviews / Votes

Scibona loves language and recognizes the power of using the right word. He seems better educated than most American writers, with a strong vocabulary and rich ideas that urge him to build complex sentences.... To the reader's enrichment, The End is an outstanding work in all the right ways -- Annie Proulx * Guardian * Scibona is a gutsy, heart-and-soul writer, unafraid of emotion and ready to take risks -- Rosemary Goring * Herald * It may have taken a while for Scibona to get to this side of the Atlantic, but The End suggests this is the beginning of a fascinating career from an important new American voice -- Stuart Evers * Daily Telegraph * This is an extraordinary novel about the experience of immigration; unsentimental and beautifully written -- Kate Saunders * The Times * Its moments of sharply realised emotional pull and gentle beauty reel you in * Metro * Its careful plotting and graceful language certainly show it to be a work of exquisite control * Los Angeles Times * Crammed with clever, striking imagery and vivid passages of almost poetic dialogue... it's a work that exerts a hold over the reader, becoming incrasingly gripping as it progresses * Daily Mail * Dealing with issues of identity and abandonment, and with an underlying sense of racial menace, this debut is difficult, dark and slyly humorous -- Eithne Farry * Marie Claire * By hijacking the realism of the immigrant novel with a metaphysics of his own, Scibona has created a daring, haunting addition to, and extension of, the genre -- Fran Bigman * Times Literary Supplement * A masterful novel... Full of wisdom, consequence and grace, Salvatore Scibona's radiant debut brims with the promise of a remarkable literary career, of which The End is only the beginning -- Annie Dillard