Man Booker International Prize (Longlist)
Society of Authors Valle-Inclan Prize (Shortlist)
Best Translated Book Award (Finalist)
Internationaler Literaturpreis (Shortlist)
Republic of Consciousness Prize (Shortlist)
A touch of David Lynch. -The Guardian
Celebrating lust and bolshiness with an intensity worthy of Clarice Lispector. -The Times Literary Supplement
The over-all effect is exacting.... And yet Die, My Love isn't truly beholden to plot. The thrill is in the human as animal, and even as parasite. -The New Yorker
Die, My Love is impressive for the force of the narrator's insatiable rage, which fragments the boundaries of the self. [Anne Enright] -New York Review of Books
Unrestrained and unadorned, Harwicz's writing has a wild beauty.... A portrait of motherhood, passion, and mental illness that cuts to the bone. -Kirkus
We are used to female narrators who occupy one of several familiar niches: blandly 'likeable', 'flawed', or pathological; murderers or abusers who are profiled with just enough sympathy to make us feel humane as we judge them. Harwicz takes us somewhere more profound and forces us to confront the thought that these easy fictional 'explanations' are specious. Lurking inside all of us is the potential for horror. -Hari Kunzru , author of THE IMPRESSIONIST and GODS WITHOUT MEN
The prose of Ariana Harwicz embarks on a vertiginous linguistic journey that joyfully shreds all vestiges of common sense. -Maria Sonia Cristoff , author of FALSE CALM
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Praise for Ariana Harwicz
Dangerously addictive. -The Guardian
A precise, intense, ruthless mosaic that demands we read carefully, never quickly. -Literary Hub
Celebrating lust and bolshiness with an intensity worthy of Clarice Lispector. -The Times Literary Supplement
Harwicz succeeds in luring the reader into the darker aspects of the human mind. -Publishers Weekly
Ariana Harwicz is the real deal, the very definition of an artist. -Adam Biles , author of FEEDING TIME
Ariana Harwicz is wet respite from deathless, sexless, bloodless art. -Melissa Broder , author of THE PISCES and SO SAD TODAY
Ariana Harwicz is an intensely passionate and fearless writer whose irresistible prose deserves to be read far and wide. -Claire-Louise Bennett , author of POND
A kick up the arse to the literary novel. Feebleminded disassembles form, sensibility, everything... at once a riot (a revolution!) and a headtrip. -Joanna Walsh , author of VERTIGO and BREAK.UP
Harwicz achieves an asphyxiating writing, saturated with images of great beauty despite their disturbing character. -El Pais
The acoustic quality of her prose, the pulse of her voice, the intensity of her imagery make her subjects so daring, so relentless, so damned and unconventional - very hard to drop or ever to forget. -Lina Meruane , author of FALSE CALM
Unrelenting and unforgettable, the Argentine author's latest novel is a breathtaking, hectic ride, as well as a strangely exhilarating story that confirms her as one of the most formidable writers at work today. -Jeremy Garber, Powell's Bookshop
Globetrotting: Your sneak preview of books in translation -New York Times
This is a novel whose characters's conflicts spill out of the page and into the prose used to tell their story, making for a searing read. -Volume 1 Brooklyn
Feebleminded is a nuclear bomb of recent literature from Argentina, a book of exceptional power with febrile characters. -Pagina/12
