Jagannath

Praise

“Quietly, intelligently, unutterably strange.  . . And ominous. And funny. And mysteriously tender. These are wonderful stories.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, author of The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Earthsea Cycle

“[Tidbeck has] a clear, succinct prose style that makes for a crisp blank canvas so that the strangeness of her plots and ideas stands out against a clean background. These stories are quick and varied, though Tidbeck deftly navigates each shift between narratives, keeping the reader hooked with swift, absorbing plots and empathetic, human characters.” —The Paris Review

“Outrageously original, insanely intricate, and possessing the freshest voices you’ll read all year, Karin Tidbeck’s Jagannath is an absolute must read for any science fiction or magical realism fan out there.” —PopSugar 

“In the Borgesian tradition…. Something wonderful — and weird — is going to happen if you open this book.” —NPR

“Stories that feel, for the first time in a long time, truly new. Shifting seamlessly between genres and moods…Tidbeck blurs the distinction between real and unreal, what is and what cannot be…. What ultimately makes Jagannath so wonderful is that however far Tidbeck strays from reality, she never loses a powerful undercurrent of human empathy.” —Chicago Review of Books

“Karin Tidbeck consistently displays staggering levels of originality, skill and confidence. Her range is amazing…. These stories are tight; not a word is wasted…. Tidbeck’s writing is frequently moving, tender, occasionally even funny. Her prose is an amazing balancing act.” —Tor.com

“Weird and wonderful.” —io9

“Quietly, intelligently, unutterably strange. And various. And ominous. And funny. And mysteriously tender. These are wonderful stories.” —Book Riot

“Jagannath draws you in and converts you to its dreamlike madness, in the end leaving you feeling more at home in its world than you do your own.” —Unbound Worlds

“Tidbeck’s stories [are] warm and inviting even at their most disturbing…. [They] are science-fiction and fantasy, horror even, but shot from such odd angles and told in such a distinct, original voice that they transcend the trappings of genre.” —The East Bay Review
 
 “Not quite like anything you’ve seen, even though you may hear vague echoes of everyone from Kafka to Borges to Tove Jansson…. [Tidbeck’s] various oddi­ties are grounded in an absolutely authentic sense of place, and a keen understanding of how the heart works.” —Locus

“Restrained and vivid, poised and strange, Tidbeck, with her impossible harmonies, is a vital voice.” —China Miéville, author of The City & the City and Embassytown

“Uncanny and unsettling, leaving you slightly dazed and more than a little enchanted.” —Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves