Description
From National Book Award finalist Ken Kalfus, an elegant, irreverent novel about the centuries-old quest for interplanetary communication.
About the Author
Ken Kalfus is the author of two novels, The Commissariat of Enlightenment and A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, which was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award. He's also published two collections of stories, Thirst and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His books have been translated into more than ten foreign languages. He lives in Philadelphia.
Reviews
Irresistibly eccentric and clever * The Times *
Beautifully judged, haunting ... Highly intelligent and rich work of fiction * Guardian *
There are hip writers, there are technically innovative writers, and there are wise, moving, and profound writers. Kalfus is all of these at once * David Foster Wallace *
When a new Ken Kalfus novel appears I stop eating, drinking, shaving and breathing until I finish it. Equilateral is one of his smartest and most ambitious books yet. It left me thinking and wondering well past my bedtime * Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story *
Equilateral skilfully blurs real-life events with fantasy ... Kalfus continues the tradition of richness-in-restraint that runs through his other works of fiction * Financial Times *
Ken Kalfus is a talent to watch * Sunday Telegraph *
Kalfus has a demonic imagination. The glamour of consistent disaster is recognizable in every line, every scene, every lacquered articulation: it is what we moderns like to call a neo-classical construct. I'm overcome by the splendor of what he's done * Richard Howard *
Book Information
ISBN 9781408843765
Author Ken Kalfus
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 160g