- Published: 15 January 2011
- ISBN: 9781409028390
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 160
Bar Balto
- Published: 15 January 2011
- ISBN: 9781409028390
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 160
Guène is praised as a multicultural heroine. And to her credit, she turns stereotypes on their heads; the people of Making-Ends-Meet are an authentic community, whose humanity endears them to us, however gritty or kitsch their veneer
Times Literary Supplement
Brilliantly paced... and utterly distinctive
Daniel Hahn, Independent
The various monologues very cleverly paint the picture of a day in the life of this deprived society; [it] is very thoroughly and convincingly done... She writes with intelligence and sympathy, with humour and understanding
Allan Massie, Scotsman
Engaging... Along with the corpse himself, [the suspects] tell their stories in a series of monologues, and this is where Guène, with the help of an excellent translation by Ardizzone, really shines
Laura Wilson, Guardian
The book is well drawn and very French, yet sounds so urgently British/London, it's charming and quick to read and allows an insight into the txt-ridden, low motivation, high octane lives of kids today, distractions, influences and warts, and all
Booktrust
One of the most exciting novelists to emerge in recent years
Irish Times