Anne will be a guest of annual Le livre sur les quais book festival in Morges, Switzerland, September 7 through 9th. She’ll be on site signing copies of An Unexpected Guest throughout, and will participating in roundtables entitled, “The French Connection” (in English) on Saturday afternoon and Ecrivains anglo-saxons” (in French) on Sunday…(Read More)
In its most recent issue, Columbia magazine says of An Unexpected Guest, “Korkeakivi does an admirable job echoing Woolf but… is at her best when she claims her own territory. Clare’s past life, a mini political thriller, unfolds delicately over the course of the novel and provides an intriguing counterpart.” Sorry, no link available…(Read More)
Glencoe Public Library has made An Unexpected Guest a staff pick, saying, “Like Claire’s event-filled day, An Unexpected Guest packs in a lot. It is a politically-charged thriller, a family drama, and a story of lost love, all set against the backdrop of the City of Light.” For the full story, look…(Read More)
Malaysia’s The Star tells its readers to pick up An Unexpected Guest! “Given Korkeakivi’s impressive writing chops in fiction and non-fiction (she’s been published in such eminent publications as The Atlantic magazine, The Yale Review, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal), such a wonderful debut novel shouldn’t…(Read More)
According to the Welland Tribune, noting the addition of An Unexpected Guest to the Welland Public Library: “As Virginia Woolf did with Mrs. Dalloway, and Michael Cunningham with The Hours, Korkeakivi brilliantly unearths the cataclysmic potential buried by the routine of one ordinary day.” To see the original post, look here…(Read More)
An Unexpected Guest is owner Ellen’s Pick at beautiful Books on the Common bookshop in Ridgefield, CT: “Anne Korkeakivi beautifully describes the peripatetic life of a diplomat’s family: the lack of ties to places and people, the strains on children and relationships. Set in Paris, we see that beautiful city through Clare’s…(Read More)
Ruth Mormon on RoadTrip America says of An Unexpected Guest: “I loved this book and would recommend it to anyone who wants to eavesdrop on the world of foreign diplomats and dinner parties while remembering that everyone has secrets and people’s lives are often not what they seem. Clare is a character who lives…(Read More)
The Italian Riviera never appeared more sultry than in this story of a sudden romance between a teenage boy and a visiting scholar at his parents’ summer villa…(Read More)
This novel about a recently widowed art historian’s retreat to a seaside resort he visited as a child would be worth reading for the beauty of its language and descriptions of the changeable northern seascape alone. Booker Prize winner, 2005…(Read More)
Sagan was only 18 when she wrote this simple seeming but unforgettable – and harrowing – story of a 17-year-old girl on summer holiday with her widowed, philandering father along the French Riviera…(Read More)
