Inland Av Tea Obreht

<p><font><b>FEATURED ON BARACK OBAMA'S 2019 READING LIST</b></font> <br><font><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE SWANSEA UNIVERSITY DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE</b></font> <br><font><b>'SPECTACULAR'</b></font> <i>Guardian</i><br><font><b>'A WONDER'</b></font> <i>Daily Mail</i><br><font><b>'SPARKLING'</b></font> <i>The Times</i><br><font><b>'EXQUISITE'</b></font> <i>Observer</i><br><font><b>'MAGNIFICENT'</b></font> <i>TLS</i><br><font><i><b>'</b></i><b>EPIC'</b></font> <i>Entertainment Weekly</i><br><font><i>'</i><b>A TRIUMPH'</b></font> <i>LitHub</i><br><font><b><i>'</i>INFECTIOUS'</b></font> <i>Financial Times</i><br><font><b><i>'</i>A MASTERPIECE'</b></font> <i>Sunday Express</i> <br><br><font><b>Nora</b></font> 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. <br><br><font><b>Lurie</b></font> 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. <br><br>Mythical, lyrical, and sweeping in scope,<i> Inland</i> is grounded in true but little-known history. It showcases all of Tea Obreht's talents as a writer, as she subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West, making them entirely - and unforgettably - her own.<br><br><font><b>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY</b>:</font> <i>Guardian, Time,</i><i> Washington Post, </i><i>Entertainment Weekly,</i> <i>Esquire, </i><i>Good Housekeeping, </i>The New York Public Library <br><br><b>'Should have been on the Booker longlist'</b> Claire Lowdon, <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br><b>'Magnificent... Brings to mind Gabriel Garcia Marquez's <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> or Toni Morrison's </b><i><b>Beloved'</b> Times Literary Supplement</i><br><br><b>'Exquisite ... The historical detail is immaculate, the landscape exquisitely drawn; the prose is hard, muscular, more convincingly Cormac McCarthy than McCarthy himself</b><i><b>'</b> </i>Alex Preston, <i>Observer</i></p>