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About The Book
The portrait of a dangerous and unknowable lost soul, by “a chronicler nonpareil of 20th-century Guyanese life.” (Margaret Busby, The Guardian)
Product Details
- Publisher: McNally Editions (May 3, 2022)
- Length: 256 pages
- ISBN13: 9781946022356
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Raves and Reviews
"The Murderer is a strange, luminous, and beguiling work by a writer with a mysterious and captivating Caribbean voice, who shied away from publicity and is now resurrected."
– Colin Grant, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
"The Murderer, Roy Heath's masterpiece, is written with immediacy and precision. In a few sentences, Heath creates a psychological tension that is totally convincing and gripping. Slowly, as the main character grows more obsessed and distant from others, he also becomes more complex and fascinating and memorable."
– Colm Tóibín
“Roy Heath’s novels are unlike any I have ever read . . . After some acquaintance with Heath’s characters, the reader finds them not in the least strange, but so familiar as to be frightening.”
– Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, London Review of Books
“Roy Heath’s study of a mind fumbling with shadows . . . has a Dostoievskian power and a haunting Guyanese backdrop that any number of clever and facile novels could not exorcise from my memory.”
– Christopher Wordsworth, The Observer
“A beautiful writer and an unforgettable book.”
– Salman Rushdie
“A writer of prodigious talent and, in his fiction, a chronicler nonpareil of 20th-century Guyanese life and lore.”
– Margaret Busby, The Guardian
“Move Crime and Punishment from the slums of St. Petersburg to the slums of Georgetown, Guyana, and you’ll have something like The Murderer.”
– Michael Harris, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Roy Heath is one of those gifted writers whose prose seems at once spare and rich . . . The compression, the exotic setting, the faint, persistent threat of violence—the combination works like a troubling dream . . . [A] remarkable novel.”
– Adam Begley, Boston Review
“Simply one of the most astonishingly good novelists of our time.”
– Edward Blishen
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