Sister Europe

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know

Jonathan Franzen

A talent that is as rare and strange as a kestrel on Oxford Street

The Sunday Times

Zink is an audacious writer . . . she always creates vibrant, off-kilter worlds for her characters to inhabit

The Times

This is a one-of-a-kind writer

Elle

Zink’s prose is an always fascinating instrument, one as flitting and amorphous as the attention span of her characters . . . Her sentences can stun, perfectly nailing a situation or emotion

The Spectator

Zink has instantly become one of the most unusual, refreshing voices in contemporary fiction. Her work is completely unfettered by genteel literary conventions and replete with robust storytelling . . .

Slate

Sister Europe assembles a motley crew of disconnected dinner party guests to explore a whole society’s hypocrisies. Unsparingly honest on the wealthy ex-pat and the professional artist, this novel feels like a big new swing from a thrilling stylist.

Lit Hub, Best Books of 2025

Zink’s new novel unleashes a motley crew of characters on an unexpected nocturnal journey through the city, painting a vivid picture of a continent at a critical moment

Financial Times, What to Read in 2025

Sophisticated and rambunctiously comic, this is a worldly hangout novel of twenty-first century manners

Vogue, Best Books of 2025

A novel that fizzes with repartee and off kilter cleverness

Daily Mail

The work of an author with a fiercely original and empathetic voice. One leaves the book wanting more of it.

Washington Post

Searingly quick, revelatory and funny. Sister Europe is so ambitious and ethically interested that it makes it clear that Zink is one of our most important contemporary writers

Guardian