Snow Kimono - Hardcover

Mark Henshaw

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472225694 ISBN 13: 9781472225696

Publisher: Tinder Press, 2015

Synopsis

Snow Kimono

About this title

About the Author:

Mark Henshaw has lived in France, Germany, Yugoslavia and the USA. He currently lives in Canberra where he was for many years curator at the National Gallery of Australia. He is now writing full-time.

Review:

Henshaw's prose [is] luminous and crisp, like the snowy countryside of Japan or the barren lanes of Algiers...When I finished The Snow Kimono, I raised my head, vaguely surprised that I was at home, in familiar surrounds, and it was still daylight outside. I turned straight back to page one and began again * Saturday Paper * Henshaw creates a world of psychological complexity and emotional subtlety in a story that moves from Paris to Japan and back again...Henshaw's prose shimmers as his narrative becomes ever more nuanced, complex, and misleading * Kirkus Reviews * Masterful...a tale almost as seamless, and of such a rich fabric, as one of Sachiko's mother's famous kimonos * Sydney Review of Books * The writing is beautiful: pellucid and wonderfully visual, painting memorable landscape cameos. The reader is compliant, willingly engaged with a story that starts in medias res and branches in unexpected and seemingly unconnected yet complementary directions * Advertiser * The novel questions authorship and the slipperiness of memory...[Its] narrative twists are challengingly clever * Australian Book Review * Strongly atmospheric, the vivid scenery of Japan resonates through Henshaw's carefully placed words as he creates a psychological thriller * Scottish Woman * This book casts a spell from the start....A highly original book full of small sensations with the bonus of being a joy to read * Shots Magazine * Stunning and hypnotic... You won't read another novel like THE SNOW KIMONO this year, or perhaps for many to come * Asian Review of Books * Wonderful...a novel of detection, a thriller of the intellect * Sydney Morning Herald * Gripping... each chapter builds on the one before, unfolding through levels of story to unpack deeper and deeper truths * Guardian * A striking piece of work, with all the intricate, precise beauty of an origami bird * Lady * A novel of exquisite beauty, which evades categorisation * The Times *

About this edition

• Publisher: Tinder Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1472225694
• ISBN 13: 9781472225696
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416