Afterwards - Rilegato

Praise from the United Kingdom for Afterwards

"Seiffert's superb new novel is her most integrated and accomplished work yet... This is one of those books that reminds you how perverse it is that we, as readers, demand that something we know to be fiction seem both real and plausible."
--Financial Times

"[Seiffert] is an excellent dramatist of human failure... Afterwards is a daring work, sure to gain her greater recognition... As fine a depiction of a man in crisis as you will read."
--The Weekly Telegraph

"Seiffert writes in an admirably precise and unsentimental style. She is very good indeed at evoking the feeling of life being led... The novel is consistently absorbing and enjoyable. Her first novel, The Dark Room, saw her hailed as one of the best of her generation; this one will confirm that judgment."
--The Scotsman

"Seiffert's prose is remarkable for its plainness... We are given, not the grandeur and symmetry of literary imaginings, but the complicated substance of unadorned lives."
--The Sunday Times

"[Seiffert has] a Pinterish ability to make what is not said seem more important than what is."
--The Guardian

"Structurally brilliant... prose that, at its best, can be as precise and searing as J.M. Coetzee's... Confirms Rachel Seiffert as one of he most intelligent and ethical writers of her generation."
--Literary Review

"Readers who wonder why writers as talented as Martin Amis and the 2006 Man Booker prize winner, Kiran Desai, seem to flinch from writing about their own times should study Ms. Seiffert."
--The Economist

Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room won a Betty Trask Award and the Los Angeles Times’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Seiffert has also received a David T. K. Wong award from PEN International. After living in Scotland and Germany, she now resides in London.