Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger - Tapa dura

"["Montecore" is] funny, ambitious, and inventive. Also black: rage and tragedy pulse beneath the fireworks...a potent chemical mix." -- "The New York Times Book Review
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"To those whose experience of Swedish fiction has been as bleak as Nordic winter, "Montecore" arrives as a sunny revelation. An exuberant account...the novel in fact challenges assumptions about Swedish identity...[A] rollicking tale." --Barnes & Noble

""Montecore "is brilliant. Like its title--an invented creolized noun equal parts Arabic, French, Swedish, Siegfried & Roy, and Dungeons & Dragons--Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novel is itself a thrillingly hybrid creature: an immigrant story, a coming-of-age tale, an epistolary epic, an indictment of Swedish racism and nationalism, a meditation on storytelling and translation. . .Above all, however, this is a beautiful nove

"["Montecore" is] funny, ambitious, and inventive. Also black: rage and tragedy pulse beneath the fireworks...a potent chemical mix." -- "The New York Times Book Review
"
"To those whose experience of Swedish fiction has been as bleak as Nordic winter, "Montecore" arrives as a sunny revelation. An exuberant account...the novel in fact challenges assumptions about Swedish identity...[A] rollicking tale." --Barnes & Noble

""Montecore "is brilliant. Like its title--an invented creolized noun equal parts Arabic, French, Swedish, Siegfried & Roy, and Dungeons & Dragons--Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novel is itself a thrillingly hybrid creature: an immigrant story, a coming-of-age tale, an epistolary epic, an indictment of Swedish racism and nationalism, a meditation on storytelling and translation. . .Above all, however, this is a beautiful novel, a bewitching novel, as funny as it is heartbreaking, as self-aware as it is self-effacing, and certainly the best book that I'

"Funny, ambitious, and inventive. Also black: rage and tragedy pulse beneath the fireworks a potent chemical mix." "The New York Times Book Review
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"A hard-hitting and resonant tale of the modern immigrant experience in Sweden." "The Boston Globe
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""Montecore" brings a metafictional slyness to the kind of immigrant narrative that many Americans will immediately recognize with its elements of aspiration, disillusion, and filial rebellion...[It's] ambitious in the best sense." "New York Journal of Books
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""Montecore" deals in the sparkling tropes pf contemporary fiction but very successfully grounds them in old-fashioned familial anguish. With style to spare and a keen take on the political turmoil of a region recently thrown into high-media focus, "Montecore" shows a young novelist swinging for the fences and hitting hard."

"To those whose experience of Swedish fiction has been as bleak as Nordic winter, "Montecore" arrives as a sunny revelation. An exuberant account the novel in fact challenges assumptions about Swedish identity [A] rollicking tale." Barnes & Noble

""Montecore "is brilliant. Like its title an invented creolized noun equal parts Arabic, French, Swedish, Siegfried & Roy, and Dungeons & Dragons Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novel is itself a thrillingly hybrid creature: an immigrant story, a coming-of-age tale, an epistolary epic, an indictment of Swedish racism and nationalism, a meditation on storytelling and translation. . .Above all, however, this is a beautiful novel, a bewitching novel, as funny as it is heartbreaking, as self-aware as it is self-effacing, and certainly the best book that I've read in a long time." Rattawut Lapcharoensap, author of "Sightseeing
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"[A] vibrant story of culture, class, and family history enlivened by Khemiri s subtle wit and voice."
"Publishers Weekly
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"Amusing and multilayered. . .Khemiri adds a distinctive and quirky voice actually several of them to contemporary literature." "Kirkus" (starred)"