-- El País
(Spain)
"First, Camus showed us the
human condition. Now Kimball has … with a fluid
style and a dizzying empathy. Kimball is a great
writer.”
-- El Mercurio
(Chile)
“bathed in tenderness …
touching and breathtaking … one of the most
moving, heartbreaking, and sad novels of
contemporary American fiction. It is essential.”
-- El Razón
(México)
[Us] "is a must-read for anyone
who has lost someone. … at once painful and
comforting."
-- Globedia
(Spain/Mexico)
“A monument to love”
-- El Placer de la
Lectura (Spain)
“a spectacular novel”
-- ABC Cultural
(Spain)
“a monument to tenderness and
feeling, to the true and delicate though
unbreakable love of an elderly couple”
-- La Voz de
Galicia (Spain)
"[The Way the Family Got
Away]
is one of the best works that the States has
produced in these last years."
--Storie
"An absolutely unexpected
novel, terrible and fascinating."
--Io
Donna
"Kimball reveals himself as
amazingly good in filtering the desolate
landscape of America, halfway between the movies
of David Lynch and The Grapes of
Wrath.
… he has a gifted vision … a hallucinatory power"
--Gazzetta Di
Parma
"The child narrator’s
metaphysical scream reverberates in the emptiness
of history."
--L’Unita
"A novel that is as disquieting
as a Gothic Novel and at the same time unveils a
powerful imagination."
--Diario
"Michael Kimball is one of
those hypnotic pied pipers who gets under the
skin of the reader, taking him to a place in the
soul from where it is impossible to escape until
the spell is finished."
--Libri
"Another author of this young
cult is the American Michael Kimball …
The Way the
Family Got Away has the evocative powers of the
[American] townscape and reminds one of the
atmostphere of director’s such as David Lynch."
--La
Republica
"The imaginative difficulties
of writing about childhood using only the
intellectual resources of childhood are extreme.
… A moving, heartbreaking, visceral story that is
never sentimental. … It is even more
extraordinary the way this obsessive, repetitive
death language—that is the true invention of this
novel—makes the feeling and the sentiment of a
child come alive. A profound emotion comes to
life, an emotion of compassion."
--La
Repubblica
"The Way the Family Got
Away is
a sophisticated American tale."
--Il
Giorno
“so deathly sad that it hurts”
--taz
“A short book with a long
echo.”
--Goetheanum
“It’s worth it to read this
novel even if it isn’t easy to read … a
remarkable literary debut.”
--Welt und
Sonntag
“Kimball has written a book
that is impressive in its radical use of language
and thematics.”
--Berliner
Morgenpost
“Like an amputated school
essay, the children narrators explain how
children are made, how the world is held together
… despite the difficult theme and the unusual
approach, the novel is amusing and intense and
not at all childlike.”
--Gegenwartsliteratur
“impressively unsentimental”
--Der Bund
Bern
“Kimball’s pair of children
narrators are precocious and skewed.”
--Heilbronner
Stimme
“A virtuously constructed
fictional language that captures the fantasies of
the children narrators, their experiences, their
fears.”
--Der Westfalischer
Anzeiger