Loosely based on Dante’s Inferno, this magnificently ambitious and enthralling novel—an in depth study of Europeans’ angst, guilt, fear, and loss during and after the Holocaust—confirms Möring’s place among “the ranks of the most important European writers of his generation” (Die Welt)
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- Harper
- Carton Qty: 24
- Selling Territory: USCOM
- 15,000
- Subsidiary Rights: First Serial, Audio: Harper; UK, Translation, Dramatic: A.P. Watt, Ltd.
- On Sale: 2/16/2010
- Fiction
- Tr 9780066212418 $24.99 ($28.99)
- 464 pages; 6 1/8 x 9
- Model ISBN: 9780066212401
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Praise for In A Dark Wood:
“Marcel Möring is beyond doubt one of the most imaginative and perceptive novelists writing today."
“Marcel Möring is beyond doubt one of the most imaginative and perceptive novelists writing today."
- Times Literary Supplement
“There’s poetry, fantasy, grim horror. Demanding and magnificent.”
- London Times
“Homer, Dante, Joyce, Greek myth, Arthurian romance—Möring’s debts are unmistakable, but there’s no sense of a sneaking or slavish dependency on these sources; his unapologetic literary borrowings are a form of celebration. His exuberance sometimes seems hyperactive, but its general effect is compelling. His approach is perhaps best understood through analogy with another art form: at one point he invokes the spirit of Miles Davis, describing the great jazzman “going into the studio with a handful of notes and chords and in a hallucinatory session recording Kind of Blue, carrying everyone along with him, with complete confidence in his leadership and the expectation that he will bring them to a place where they have to be.”
- The Guardian
Praise for The Dream Room:
“A haunted, erotic tale. . . . A translation of Faulkner’s Southern Gothic into Dutch.”
“A haunted, erotic tale. . . . A translation of Faulkner’s Southern Gothic into Dutch.”
- Seattle Times-Post Intelligencer
“Möring’s compact fable of innocence beguiled, betrayed, and eventually matured into sobered acceptance has something of the abrupt elliptical tensile strength of fiction like Ford’s The Good Soldier and L. P. Hartley’s The Go-Between, and it’s dense metaphoric weave makes it close kin as well to Michel Tournier’s subtle symbolic fictions. . . . Möring’s most accomplished work yet.”
- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Graceful. . . beautifully written."
- Publishers Weekly
Praise for In Babylon:
“Ambitious In Babylon opens with the epithet: Trees have roots. Jews have legs. It jumps all over four centuries of those legs journeying along the roads that, as Magnus says, are all the same and lead to each other. It is Marcel Moring’s achievement that he has rendered this profusion of trails from the Old to the New World so diverse, so divergent and so divinely—or diabolically—funny.
“Ambitious In Babylon opens with the epithet: Trees have roots. Jews have legs. It jumps all over four centuries of those legs journeying along the roads that, as Magnus says, are all the same and lead to each other. It is Marcel Moring’s achievement that he has rendered this profusion of trails from the Old to the New World so diverse, so divergent and so divinely—or diabolically—funny.
- The Independent on Sunday
“Ingenious storytelling..resonant. . . entertaining. . . . Marcel Möring and his protaganist Nathan are such skillful and prolific storytellers that fact, fiction, and fairy tale blur together, pleasurably . . . a splendidly accomplished novel.”
- Boston Globe