Domenico Starnone (All press)
- Aug 29 2024
“Starnone’s prose is charming, witty, and intellectual.”
— Booklist - Aug 14 2024
“Intricate and masterful.”
— Electric Lit - Aug 7 2024
“Full of beauty and insight. . . This won’t be easily forgotten.”
— Publishers Weekly - May 27 2024
“Monumental.”
— Reading in Translation - Apr 2 2024
“Contemporary masterpiece.”
— Evening Standard - Jan 18 2024
- Jul 12 2023
“Readable and elegant.”
— Times Literary Supplement - Jul 12 2023
“Exuberant.”
— On the Seawall - Jul 12 2023
“Richly detailed.”
— The Washington Post - Jul 10 2023
“A writer exquisitely attuned to class anxieties.”
— The Atlantic - May 30 2023
“Vivid.”
— The Brooklyn Rail - May 30 2023
“A masterpiece.”
— The New York Times Book Review - Mar 17 2023
“Starnone can do no wrong.”
— Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) - Nov 10 2021
“Proves one of the novel’s best gambits.”
— Washington Post - Nov 9 2021
“The Terrible Powers of Self-Deception.”
— Los Angeles Review of Books - Nov 9 2021
“A sweeping examination of aging, love, and success.”
— Booklist - Nov 8 2021
“...cuts like a scalpel to the core of its characters.”
— Los Angeles Times - Nov 6 2021
“The book that taught me what translation was.”
— The New Yorker - Nov 5 2021
“Electrifying.”
— Financial Times - Oct 13 2021
“A rip of a read.”
— Oprah Daily - Oct 12 2021
“Absolutely brilliant!”
— RTE Radio - Oct 11 2021
“Starnone is a masterful storyteller.”
— Reading in Translation - Aug 24 2021
“Conveys the theme of loss perfectly.”
— Los Angeles Times - Aug 18 2021
“A novel to be savored.”
— Kirkus Reviews (Starred) - Jul 16 2021
“An elegant story.”
— Publishers Weekly - Jul 15 2021
“Explores the gulf between our public and private selves.”
— The Millions - Nov 12 2018
“Starnone...sends us on a trip filled with trickery”
— Vox - Apr 19 2018
“One of Italy’s most accomplished novelists spins a wonderful story...”
— The Guardian - Apr 1 2018
“A superb, sometimes unsettling intergenerational portrait hitting on basic truths.”
— Library Journal (Starred Review) - Mar 30 2018
" . . . an emotionally complex, layered story whose brevity serves to amplify profound themes . . . "
— Shelf Awareness (Starred Review) - Mar 18 2018
Ties by Domenico Starnone
— The Times - Mar 13 2018
Jhumpa Lahiri translates another Italian gem into English: Domenico Starnone’s ‘Trick’
— The Washington Post - Mar 11 2018
Domenico Starnone Sketches a Ghost Story in 'Trick'
— The Michigan Daily - Mar 8 2018
Why Jhumpa Lahiri loves translating Italy’s ‘finest living writer’
— Entertainment Weekly - Mar 1 2018
“ . . . a stark meditation on art, ambition and failure.”
— BBC Culture - Mar 1 2018
15 Books You Should Read This March
— Literary Hub - Feb 25 2018
“Starnone packs a huge amount into a small compass… Engrossing.”
— The Sunday Times (UK) - Feb 5 2018
" . . . a remarkably layered work . . . "
— Publishers Weekly - Jan 18 2018
“A new book from Starnone is an event to celebrate.”
— Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) - Jan 8 2018
“ . . . this deliciously addictive novel is a treat to read.”
— BookRiot - Dec 26 2017
“The 50 most anticipated books of 2018”
— Entertainment Weekly - Nov 27 2017
Books of the Year
— The Sunday Times - Nov 22 2017
100 Notable Books of 2017
— The New York Times - Nov 14 2017
Best Fiction of 2017
— Kirkus - Aug 25 2017
“Ties is an extraordinary novel."
— World Literature Today - Aug 8 2017
"...the power is in its exploration of intimacy..."
— The Mookse and the Gripes - Jul 18 2017
“Starnone captures and dissects a vast array of concerns in a slim volume..."
— Asymptote Journal - Jul 14 2017
Wild States of Being
— Public Books - Jun 1 2017
What to Read Before You Head to Rome
— The New York Times - Apr 19 2017
Framing device
— The Times Literary Supplement - Mar 29 2017
Limits of the Soul: On Domenico Starnone’s ‘Ties’
— The Millions - Mar 26 2017
Ties by Domencio Starnone review – a sharply observed tale of a couple in crisis
— The Guardian - Mar 14 2017
Prose by any other name: Elena Ferrante rumours aside, Domenico Starnone’s triumph is his own
— National Post (Canada) - Mar 12 2017
The ties that bind, those that unravel
— The Hindu - Mar 11 2017
A Novel of Identity in Dialogue with Elena Ferrante's “The Days of Abandonment”
— The New Yorker - Mar 9 2017
“TIES is...the leanest, most understated and emotionally powerful novel by Domenico Starnone.”
— New York Times Book Review - Mar 7 2017
The Tangled Tale of Two Italian Literary Giants
— The Week - Mar 5 2017
“A clever, artful novel”
— The Times - Mar 1 2017
Ten books you should read in March
— BBC Culture - Feb 28 2017
15 Must-Read Books for March
— Flavorwire - Feb 3 2017
“Both a whodunit and a who-did-what-when...”
— Booklist - Feb 2 2017
Ties: an Expertly Crafted Short Novel
— Shelf Awareness Pro - Jan 11 2017
Exciting Fiction of the First Half of 2017
— Wales Arts Review - Dec 15 2016
“[TIES] is as vivid and devastating as anything you will read this year. A slim, stunning meditation on marriage, fidelity, honesty, and truth.”
— Kirkus (Starred Review) - Nov 29 2016
“A scalding and incisive display of damage done and people missing their mark.”
— Library Journal (Starred Review) - Jul 13 2015
Reading Matters: "The Execution is a brilliant novel brimful of ideas and theories about politics, education, terrorism, war and justice — among others — and I came away from it feeling as if my mind was slightly blown.” - Oct 7 2009
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine: (4 star review) "An excellent reading experience for those who don’t insist all questions be answered definitely." - May 16 2009
International Noir: "The writing is gorgeous!" - Apr 16 2009
Mostly Fiction: "By turns exciting, absurd, and ironic." - Apr 7 2009
Globe and Mail: "Europa brings us some of the best European crime literature in excellent translations, and this novel, by Italian master Starnone, is one of the best short books you'll find this year." - Apr 6 2009
New Pages: "Be prepared to unpack the layers in this gem of European noir. For those desiring a bit more depth to their standard crime fiction, this intelligent thriller is worth checking out." - Apr 5 2009
Three Monkeys: "The plot within the plot is enough to get us page-turning, but the interruptions when they come are not mere sleights of hand. They are the real story." - Mar 5 2009
Complete Review: "Violence, and the threat of violence, bubbles under the surface of much of this." - Mar 5 2009
Shelf Awareness: "A clever, suspenseful crime thriller about the writing of a crime thriller, with twists, turns, reversals and trapdoors."