Inland

THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE TIGER'S WIFE

'A tremendously talented writer' - Ann Patchett

'SPECTACULAR' - Guardian
'A WONDER' - Daily Mail
'SPARKLING' - The Times
'EXQUISITE' - Observer
'MAGNIFICENT' - TLS
'EPIC' - Entertainment Weekly
'A TRIUMPH' - LitHub
'INFECTIOUS' - Financial Times
'A MASTERPIECE' - Sunday Express

A MAN SEARCHING FOR A HOME HE CAN'T FIND.
A WOMAN BOUND TO A HOME SHE CAN'T LEAVE.

Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life, biding her time with her youngest son - who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home - and her husband's seventeen-year-old cousin, who communes with spirits.

Lurie is a former outlaw and a man haunted by ghosts. He sees lost souls who want something from him, and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected relationship that inspires a momentous expedition across the West.

Mythical, lyrical, and sweeping in scope, Inland is grounded in true but little-known history. It showcases all of Téa Obreht's talents as a writer, as she subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West, making them entirely - and unforgettably - her own.

'This free-ranging tale of an American frontierswoman should have been on the Booker longlist... I'm already looking forward to whatever Obreht writes next' -Claire Lowdon, Sunday Times

'Magnificent... Brings to mind Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude or Toni Morrison's Beloved' - Times Literary Supplement

'Exquisite ... The historical detail is immaculate, the landscape exquisitely drawn; the prose is hard, muscular, more convincingly Cormac McCarthy than McCarthy himself... [The] paranormal element reminds us strongly of George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo ... Inland also feels of a piece with another recent novel, Sarah Perry's Melmoth' - Alex Preston, Observer

PRAISE FOR THE TIGER'S WIFE
'The most thrilling discovery in years' - Colum McCann
'Assured, eloquent and not easily forgotten' - Independent on Sunday
'A poignant, seductive novel' - Observer
'One of the most extraordinary debuts of recent memory' - Vogue