Vibrantly lyrical and somber...strikingly powerful * Le Monde *
A masterpiece * La Croix *
Lyrical, precise, and rhythmic * L'Humanite *
Empathic, nerve-wracking, and inspired * France Info *
A great book even before being a first book * Phillipe Claudel, Goncourt judge *
A clear-eyed recreation of postwar Communism and the armed battle against tyranny, shot through with intense prose and insight into the characters' inner lives. * Publishers Weekly *
A promising debut ... Andras revives a lost moment in history * Kirkus Reviews *
Deeply affecting ... A remarkable book. * Morning Star *
Pithy ... in Leser's translation, Andras's prose is like the films of Jean-Pierre Melville, by turns raw and atmospheric, philosophical and hard-boiled. -- Matt Hartman * Protean Magazine *
As cogent as it is compelling. -- Jeremy Garber * PowellsBooks.Blog *
Remarkable and original ... a short book that leaves a deep impression * New Internationalist *
Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us subverts colonial morality and interrogates a philosophical dilemma that is still very much alive in our contemporary consciousness: how can Western powers torture, incarcerate, and execute terrorists without first reckoning with their own relentless, centuries-long terrorism? And who is to determine which side serves justice and which perishes? -- Brady Brickner-Wood * Ploughshares *
Tightly coiled ... Andras is fastidious about adhering to the known facts. His restraint is commendable * Literary Review *
Vivid ... Iveton not only becomes a historical symbol, but reanimated as a flesh-and-blood man who loved and was loved back -- Rebecca Liu * Prospect *
Electrifying. ... Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us insists on plumbing the thorniest details of history's scandal, suggesting - convincingly - that certain truths are best revealed in fiction. -- Kaiama L. Glover * New York Times *
Andras delivers a brisk, angry slap of outraged idealism . Powerful -- Boyd Tonkin * Spectator *
A stunning book * Lucy Writers *
Andras brings the story [of Fernand Iveton] back to life with painful immediacy and palpable urgency. * The Arts Desk *
Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us is a compact narrative with an elevated pulse and a singular purpose - to show how an unexceptional person may act exceptionally when oppression is too threatening to one's community to ignore. ... [Andras'] prose is lucid, unsparing but also animated by a certain poised affection for its oppressed characters. [His] unfussy, vivid phrasing may evoke the style of another Algeria-based novel - namely Camus' L'etranger. -- Ron Slate * On the Seawall *
An intense portrait of a moment in history ... in an equally intense and lyrical translation by Simon Leser ... a powerful book * Lunate Fiction *
[Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us] is just 137 pages long, but every one of them is taut and fraught, a nightmare of noble intentions gone horribly wrong. -- James Tarmy * Bloomberg Businessweek (The 14 Books to Put on Your Reading List This Spring) *
Short, intense, the best book I've read this month -- David Mills * Sunday Times *
Editors' Choice * New York Times Book Review *
A modern J'Accuse that puts the state in the dock ... condemnatory and heartfelt -- Sanjay Sipahimalani * Money Control *
Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us is a lean, mean slab of righteous radicalism and unjust retribution. A consummate novelist, Joseph Andras is a talent not to be ignored. * Bookshop.org *
Subtle, concise, evocative, and poetic. -- Ron Jacobs * CounterPunch *
Structured around the events of a few bleak months, the circumstances, both personal and political, that led Iveton to his predicament are revealed in flashbacks that are seamlessly inserted into the text. -- Mark Rappolt * ArtReview *
Compelling -- Declan O'Driscoll * Irish Times *
An austerely compelling account of the capture, trial and execution ... Andras's bleak account is leavened by passages of vibrant lyricism -- Laura Garmeson * Times Literary Supplement *
Like the love child of Camus' The Stranger and Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers: elemental, brutal and calm all at the same time. -- Ryne Clos * Spectrum Culture *
Tender and beautiful -- Sean Sheehan * The Prisma *
A short, very simply but beautifully written book * Irish Marxist Review *
