Nathaniel Popkin reviews three books by Marek Hlakso in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, including the recently published novel Killing the Second Dog, available now from New Vessel Press.
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“Elena Ferrante has cited Ortese as one of her greatest influences, and the connections are obvious in this collection of short stories and essays, which infuse a grimy, chaotic Naples with unsentimental menace rather than romantic mystique. Ortese gathers concrete details about the realities of poverty, and, like Ferrante, delineates moments of status tension with blunt accuracy.”
The New Yorker
Nathaniel Popkin reviews three books by Marek Hlakso in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, including the recently published novel Killing the Second Dog, available now from New Vessel Press.
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