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Shining at the Bottom of the Sea |
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| Book: Paperback | 5.27 x 7.95in | 256 pages | ISBN 9781594483158 | 05 Aug 2008 | Riverhead | 18 - AND UP |
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“May be the most exciting mash-up of literary genres since David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas.”(The New York Times Book Review)
Shining at the Bottom of the Sea is a vibrant evocation of a fictional country, Sanjania—from the birth pangs of its first settlers and their hardy vernacular, to its revolutionary years, and all the way to the present diaspora—all told through Stephen Marche’s innovative and accomplished writing style.
“Rarely is a novel as refreshingly different as Shining at the Bottom of the Sea…In a triumph of postmodernism, Marche has created a novel that can—and will—be read an incalculable number of ways.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Unlike...any other book. [A] real tour de force, ingenious and hilarious, a tour of the island of one writer’s fertile mind.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Untrammeled, unfettered, unprecedented, unselfconscious, and friggin’ unbelievable, this book busts the novel open.”
—Daniel Handler, author of Adverbs
“Reads like one of Borges’s three page ficciones, spun out to book length.”
—The New York Times Book Review
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