Reviews
"Funny, ambitious, and inventive. Also black: rage and tragedy pulse beneath the fireworks&a potent chemical mix." - The New York Times Book Review "A hard-hitting and resonant tale of the modern immigrant experience in Sweden." - The Boston Globe " Montecore brings a metafictional slyness to the kind of immigrant narrative that many Americans will immediately recognize with its elements of aspiration, disillusion, and filial rebellion...[It's] ambitious in the best sense." - New York Journal of Books " Montecore deals in the sparkling tropes pf contemporary fiction but very successfully grounds them in old-fashioned familial anguish. With style to spare and a keen take on the political turmoil of a region recently thrown into high-media focus, Montecore shows a young novelist swinging for the fences and hitting hard." "To those whose experience of Swedish fiction has been as bleak as Nordic winter, Montecore arrives as a sunny revelation. An exuberant account&the novel in fact challenges assumptions about Swedish identity&[A] rollicking tale." -Barnes & Noble " Montecore is brilliant. Like its title-an invented creolized noun equal parts Arabic, French, Swedish, Siegfried & Roy, and Dungeons & Dragons-Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novel is itself a thrillingly hybrid creature: an immigrant story, a coming-of-age tale, an epistolary epic, an indictment of Swedish racism and nationalism, a meditation on storytelling and translation. . .Above all, however, this is a beautiful novel, a bewitching novel, as funny as it is heartbreaking, as self-aware as it is self-effacing, and certainly the best book that I've read in a long time." -Rattawut Lapcharoensap, author of Sightseeing "[A] vibrant story of culture, class, and family history enlivened by Khemiri's subtle wit and voice." - Publishers Weekly "Amusing and multilayered. . .Khemiri adds a distinctive and quirky voice-actually several of them-to contemporary literature." - Kirkus (starred), "Funny, ambitious, and inventive. Also black: rage and tragedy pulse beneath the fireworks…a potent chemical mix." - The New York Times Book Review "A hard-hitting and resonant tale of the modern immigrant experience in Sweden." - The Boston Globe " Montecore brings a metafictional slyness to the kind of immigrant narrative that many Americans will immediately recognize with its elements of aspiration, disillusion, and filial rebellion...[It's] ambitious in the best sense." - New York Journal of Books " Montecore deals in the sparkling tropes pf contemporary fiction but very successfully grounds them in old-fashioned familial anguish. With style to spare and a keen take on the political turmoil of a region recently thrown into high-media focus, Montecore shows a young novelist swinging for the fences and hitting hard." "To those whose experience of Swedish fiction has been as bleak as Nordic winter, Montecore arrives as a sunny revelation. An exuberant account…the novel in fact challenges assumptions about Swedish identity…[A] rollicking tale." -Barnes & Noble " Montecore is brilliant. Like its title-an invented creolized noun equal parts Arabic, French, Swedish, Siegfried & Roy, and Dungeons & Dragons-Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novel is itself a thrillingly hybrid creature: an immigrant story, a coming-of-age tale, an epistolary epic, an indictment of Swedish racism and nationalism, a meditation on storytelling and translation. . .Above all, however, this is a beautiful novel, a bewitching novel, as funny as it is heartbreaking, as self-aware as it is self-effacing, and certainly the best book that I've read in a long time." -Rattawut Lapcharoensap, author of Sightseeing "[A] vibrant story of culture, class, and family history enlivened by Khemiri's subtle wit and voice." - Publishers Weekly "Amusing and multilayered. . .Khemiri adds a distinctive and quirky voice-actually several of them-to contemporary literature." - Kirkus (starred) From the Hardcover edition., "[ Montecore is] funny, ambitious, and inventive. Also black: rage and tragedy pulse beneath the fireworks&a potent chemical mix." - The New York Times Book Review "To those whose experience of Swedish fiction has been as bleak as Nordic winter, Montecore arrives as a sunny revelation. An exuberant account&the novel in fact challenges assumptions about Swedish identity&[A] rollicking tale." -Barnes & Noble " Montecore is brilliant. Like its title-an invented creolized noun equal parts Arabic, French, Swedish, Siegfried & Roy, and Dungeons & Dragons-Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novel is itself a thrillingly hybrid creature: an immigrant story, a coming-of-age tale, an epistolary epic, an indictment of Swedish racism and nationalism, a meditation on storytelling and translation. . .Above all, however, this is a beautiful novel, a bewitching novel, as funny as it is heartbreaking, as self-aware as it is self-effacing, and certainly the best book that I've read in a long time." -Rattawut Lapcharoensap, author of Sightseeing "[A] vibrant story of culture, class, and family history enlivened by Khemiri’s subtle wit and voice." - Publishers Weekly "Amusing and multilayered. . .Khemiri adds a distinctive and quirky voice-actually several of them-to contemporary literature." - Kirkus (starred), " Montecore is brilliant. Like its title-an invented creolized noun equal parts Arabic, French, Swedish, Siegfried & Roy, and Dungeons & Dragons-Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novel is itself a thrillingly hybrid creature: an immigrant story, a coming-of-age tale, an epistolary epic, an indictment of Swedish racism and nationalism, a meditation on storytelling and translation. . .Above all, however, this is a beautiful novel, a bewitching novel, as funny as it is heartbreaking, as self-aware as it is self-effacing, and certainly the best book that I've read in a long time." -Rattawut Lapcharoensap, author of Sightseeing "[A] vibrant story of culture, class, and family history enlivened by Khemiri's subtle wit and voice." - Publishers Weekly "Amusing and multilayered. . .Khemiri adds a distinctive and quirky voice-actually several of them-to contemporary literature." - Kirkus (starred), "Funny, ambitious, and inventive. Also black: rage and tragedy pulse beneath the fireworks&a potent chemical mix." - The New York Times Book Review "A hard-hitting and resonant tale of the modern immigrant experience in Sweden." - The Boston Globe " Montecore brings a metafictional slyness to the kind of immigrant narrative that many Americans will immediately recognize with its elements of aspiration, disillusion, and filial rebellion...[It's] ambitious in the best sense." - New York Journal of Books "To those whose experience of Swedish fiction has been as bleak as Nordic winter, Montecore arrives as a sunny revelation. An exuberant account&the novel in fact challenges assumptions about Swedish identity&[A] rollicking tale." -Barnes & Noble " Montecore is brilliant. Like its title-an invented creolized noun equal parts Arabic, French, Swedish, Siegfried & Roy, and Dungeons & Dragons-Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novel is itself a thrillingly hybrid creature: an immigrant story, a coming-of-age tale, an epistolary epic, an indictment of Swedish racism and nationalism, a meditation on storytelling and translation. . .Above all, however, this is a beautiful novel, a bewitching novel, as funny as it is heartbreaking, as self-aware as it is self-effacing, and certainly the best book that I've read in a long time." -Rattawut Lapcharoensap, author of Sightseeing "[A] vibrant story of culture, class, and family history enlivened by Khemiri's subtle wit and voice." - Publishers Weekly "Amusing and multilayered. . .Khemiri adds a distinctive and quirky voice-actually several of them-to contemporary literature." - Kirkus (starred), "Funny, ambitious, and inventive. Also black: rage and tragedy pulse beneath the fireworks…a potent chemical mix." - The New York Times Book Review "A hard-hitting and resonant tale of the modern immigrant experience in Sweden." - The Boston Globe " Montecore brings a metafictional slyness to the kind of immigrant narrative that many Americans will immediately recognize with its elements of aspiration, disillusion, and filial rebellion...[It's] ambitious in the best sense." - New York Journal of Books " Montecore deals in the sparkling tropes pf contemporary fiction but very successfully grounds them in old-fashioned familial anguish. With style to spare and a keen take on the political turmoil of a region recently thrown into high-media focus, Montecore shows a young novelist swinging for the fences and hitting hard." "To those whose experience of Swedish fiction has been as bleak as Nordic winter, Montecore arrives as a sunny revelation. An exuberant account…the novel in fact challenges assumptions about Swedish identity…[A] rollicking tale." -Barnes & Noble " Montecore is brilliant. Like its title-an invented creolized noun equal parts Arabic, French, Swedish, Siegfried & Roy, and Dungeons & Dragons-Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novel is itself a thrillingly hybrid creature: an immigrant story, a coming-of-age tale, an epistolary epic, an indictment of Swedish racism and nationalism, a meditation on storytelling and translation. . .Above all, however, this is a beautiful novel, a bewitching novel, as funny as it is heartbreaking, as self-aware as it is self-effacing, and certainly the best book that I've read in a long time." -Rattawut Lapcharoensap, author of Sightseeing "[A] vibrant story of culture, class, and family history enlivened by Khemiri's subtle wit and voice." - Publishers Weekly "Amusing and multilayered. . .Khemiri adds a distinctive and quirky voice-actually several of them-to contemporary literature." - Kirkus (starred)
