'I felt Budhini had to be revived from the criminal forgetfulness of the country; she wasn't just a mud block that was broken during the great nation-building process. I felt that she should rise again in the nation's memory along with the hundreds of villages, vast farmlands, forests and temple complexes that were drowned in the Panchet reservoir.' SARAH JOSEPH
It is a rare book in that it has the ability to make you laugh out loud and be deeply moved within a few pages. -- Adam Staten ― British Journal of General Practice Wildly original, brutally gruesome, a dazzling performance that will outrage as many readers as it delights. Vulgarly, bitterly funny, it will not be forgotten by those who…
'A powerful testament to spiritual yearning and the human desire to transcend the physical world' ― Sunday Times A visceral portrait of the life of St Paul' ― Guardian 'The novel Tsiolkas was born to write' ― Financial Times
WINNER: WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER: FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, BRITISH BOOK AWARDS WINNER: BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER'S CHOICE AWARD Shortlisted, Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Shortlisted, An Post Irish Novel of the Year
'Beautiful, gentle, intricate... Here We Are smuggles within the pages of a seemingly commonplace tale depths of emotion and narrative complexity that take the breath away.' - The Observer
Jin's richly textured, unsparing writing questions whether a self can exist unmarked by the past ― New Yorker It's a page-turner - but all the while it winks, reminding us that possible explanations in our universe are as varied as the beings who populate it ― Paris Review
