A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2014 A New York Times Notable Book A Guardian Best Book of the Year A New York Times Bestseller Nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award "Hardly a soul writes of the listening and playing of music with such insight and tenderness. . . . There are moments of epiphany gracefully expressed, especially in regard…
Exquisite Cadavers' experiment delivers a book that is slyly funny and profoundly thoughtful. It is common for critics and readers to belittle women by assuming they write out of catharsis rather than to create. Exquisite Cadavers is not just a fierce rebuttal. It's a work of brilliance. ― Financial Times An inventive fusion of fact and fiction. ― Observer Fascinating... The cleverness of Kandasamy's bricolage is that…