The Blazing World: Longlisted for the Booker Prize

I have told nearly everyone I love - and some random acquaintances - to stop whatever they are doing and read The Blazing World . . . Hustvedt's novels have always been smart, accomplished, critically acclaimed but this one feels like a departure. There is more heat in it, more wildness; it seems to burst on to a whole other level of achievement and grace - Financial TimesThis novel is a puzzle, a mystery, a dance, filled with intrigue, a truly wonderful intellectual work that makes you think and laugh and tickles the brain. - Daily MailHustvedt writes with a cool precision that can give her work a blistering power . . . The Blazing World is a dazzling novel, the kind that makes you cry (or nearly cry) as well as think. - The Sunday TimesThere's a central mystery to unravel in The Blazing World, but its real pleasures come from Hustvedt's startling talent for voice and register . . . a novel that gloriously lives up to its title, one blazing with energy and thought. - The TimesDensely brilliant, but terrifyingly clever . . . But you don't need a PhD in Kierkegaard to enjoy Hustvedt's writing, and it's a pleasure to feel your brain whirring as it forges links and finds the cracks across differing accounts - Independent on SundayHer prose is brilliant, furious, teeming with intelligence and life - an experiment in reception itself. - Literary ReviewBoth intellectually and emotionally gripping . . . [it] feels like one of those novels in which a well-established author triumphantly sums up, and possibly even surpasses, everything they've done before. - SpectatorEven by Siri Hustvedt's extremely high standards, The Blazing World is an extraordinary book - Sunday Express