"Wildly inventive and surreal . . . shades of Evelyn Waugh in its eye for detail and pomposity, fascination with the British class system and eye for the absurd."
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Literary Review
“Anna Maria Ortese was the last great writer of the generation that produced Italo Calvino and Primo Levi. Today, few critics would disagree with the poet Andrea Zanzotto, who rates her as ‘one of the most important Italian women writers of this century.’”
The Independent