- Published: 5 July 2022
- ISBN: 9781529113822
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $26.00
Names of the Women
- Published: 5 July 2022
- ISBN: 9781529113822
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $26.00
Names of The Women unerases the erased, gives voice to the silenced, restores the lost, and brings dazzling, smouldering life to stories long left for dead. It is literally a tale that's waited a thousand years to be told.
Marlon James, Winner of the 2015 Booker Prize
Names of the Women is an extraordinary work of restoration, playful invention, and stark beauty.
Chris Power
An electrifying new treatment of the old story; haunting, mysterious, intelligent.
Tessa Hadley
Achingly beautiful. Powerful, poetic and profoundly feminist.
Jennifer Croft
Original and thought-provoking . . . This is a bold and beguiling addition to the canon of New Testament fiction.
Michael Arditti, Spectator
Bold and compelling.
Rebecca Abrams, Financial Times
Fascinating.
Claire Allfree, Daily Mail
It's fascinating to be reminded how little we properly understand one of the foundational stories of western civilisation. And there are moments where the much-pondered events are reframed in a new light.
Marcel Theroux, Guardian
Theologically well-informed, imaginative and affecting . . . This is a fascinating and beautiful book. You most certainly do not have to be either a Christian or a feminist to appreciate it.
Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
Thayil sheds absorbing light on a period when women of all classes were disregarded . . . [Names of the Women is] executed with real empathy and aplomb.
Max Davidson, Mail on Sunday
Jeet Thayil's Names of the Women enacts a long-overdue reinstating of female voices in the story of Jesus . . .
Emily Watkins
[A] richly imagined novel.
Lady, *Summer Reads of 2021*
Women from the New Testament are given a voice and their side of the story in this richly imagined but impressively researched novel. Thayil's knowledge and rootedness in the biblical world is palpable on every page.
Juanita Coulson, Lady, *Books of the Year*