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the complete review - fiction

Bonita Avenue

by
Peter Buwalda

[an overview of the reviews and critical reactions]

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Why we haven't reviewed it yet:
Fun but unwieldy; too impatient with its back-and-forth storytelling


Chances that we will review it:
Possible

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  From the Reviews:

• "Buwalda, like many contemporary novelists working in the school of hyper-realism, artfully embeds his digressive narrative technique into the story itself. (...) For the most part, however, its claustrophobic fictional universe feels curiously, and pleasingly, old-fashioned. (...) No one is especially likeable, but Buwalda knows how to tease his reader with addictive story lines." - James Kidd, The Independent
  
  
• "(A) new writer as toe-curling as early Roth, as roomy as Franzen and as caustic as Houellebecq. Don’t let me forget to mention Jonathan Reeder’s note-perfect English translation" - Anthony Cummins, The Telegraph
  
  
• "Buwalda hat ein Buch geschrieben, das gerade durch seine bewusste Weiterdrehung des Erzählens und Nachdenkens über Familie ins Irrwitzige, ja Irrationale und Groteske jene tiefliegenden Wahrheiten ans Tageslicht holt, an die mit traditionellen Erzählmitteln bislang offenbar nicht heran zu kommen war. Das macht es groß und unerhört." - Peter Henning, Die Zeit

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Links:

• Pushkin Press publicity page
• Hogarth publicity page
• De Bezige Bij publicity page
• Actes Sud publicity page
• Rowohlt publicity page
• Dutch Foundation for Literature information page
• Q & A at The Quietus

• La Cause Littéraire (French)
• CULTurMAG (German)
• Daily Mail
• Devoted Mommy of 3
• iLiteratura.cz (Czech)
• 52 books or bust
• The Independent
• Kirkus Reviews
• Knack (Dutch)
• Los Angeles Review of Books
• Never Mind the Bus Pass
• Het Parool (Dutch)
• The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Publishers Weekly
• Reading with Hippos
• Savidge Reads
• Süddeutsche Zeitung (German)
• The Telegraph
• 20minutes (French)
• Die Zeit (German)

• See Index of Dutch literature under review
• Other books from Pushkin Press under review

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About the Author:

       Dutch author Peter Buwalda was born in 1971.

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