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"New world devours old," Finster recalls from Vanduuan lore. "The foam is the mark of its voracious appetite. Teeth of the dog, the natives call it." Moments like these, when Ciment depicts the jostling of cultures, are nearly as much fun as watching Helene try to transmute desperation, deciphering a world she'd rather not have visited. Brisk, lush, and mildly suspenseful, Teeth of the Dog, while something short of a thriller, nonetheless reveals a fascinating world as rich in danger as it is in uncertainty. --Ben Guterson
"Ciment's multilayered novel is a taut, intelligent literary thriller in which character and fate, and a yawning chasm of cultural differences, unite to cause tragedy. . . . This knowing tour of human frailty will serve to secure Ciment's reputation for intelligent themes and uncompromising prose."
--Publishers Weekly
"Reading Half a Life feels like sitting down to dinner with someone you really like. It gets late, you have to work in the morning, yet the intimacy is so intense, the story so compelling, that instead of going home you say, 'And what happened then?' Ciment writes with absolute compassion . . . full of humor, generosity and amazing tenacity . . . nothing short of heroic."
--Los Angeles Times
"Luminous, sad, funny, and affecting . . . so emotionally detailed, so physically well observed that [every scene] burns an image into the reader's memory."
--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
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