The Last of the Vostyachs

'Part mystery, part Scandinavian-noir, with a splash of 12 Monkeys.'
* Readings Monthly *
`When I reviewed New Finnish Grammar, I edged towards using the word "genius" to describe Marani. I'm doing so again now.' * Guardian *
`A roller-coaster ride whisking the reader alternatively through zones of darkness, hilarity, cruelty, tenderness, the near-lubricious...There's something for almost everyone.' -- PEN
`A riot of comic unpredictability.' * Times Literary Supplement *
'For Italian fiction in translation, there is nobody more important being published today. This is a beautiful, intelligently funny novel.'
* Italia *
'Landry is an adept translator, of the kind who likes to make it seem that the book has all along been written in English.' * London Review of Books *
Marani's fascination with languages, and with the silencing of language in particular, permeates this captivating work...Part murder mystery set in the Arctic, part study of language, part Norse saga-though spiced with its own modernity, magic and humour-and part evocation of the Arctic wilderness, Marani's novel shows his extraordinary skills and erudition.' * Sydney Morning Herald / Age *