An Unexpected Guest has been included on Kirkus Reviews’ list of “New and Notable Fiction: April 2012…(Read More)
An Unexpected Guest was named an “especially promising” literary debut for spring/summer 2012 by Library Journal: “The American wife of the British minister in Paris has a dark secret, unfolded in this “engaging” novel by Hawthornden Fellow Korkeakivi…(Read More)
“Word Craft: Learning to Speak in Tongues” – a new essay by Anne on how to handle foreign language in fiction, in the Wall Street Journal, 03/24/12. Here is a link…(Read More)
“[U]sing foreign words is a slippery slope. Creating a sense of place is one thing, but you don’t want to drive readers crazy with incomprehensible phrases or dialect. You want the language to work for the story and not against it.” Some readers are instantly uncomfortable when they encounter unfamiliar words in a…(Read More)
From the April 2012 issue of Whole Living: “The book is as wonderfully self-possessed as its leading lady, and winningly suspenseful as well…(Read More)
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New Q & A with Anne in author Janet Skeslien Charles’s blog. http://www.jskesliencharles.com/2012/03/interview-with-anne-korkeakivi/  …(Read More)
Kirkus Reviews calls An Unexpected Guest “a beautifully modulated first novel” in a starred review: “With this seemingly slight day-in-the-life tale, Korkeakivi produces a knowing comedy of manners, a politically charged thriller and a genuinely moving study of the human heart…(Read More)
Book Pick for the April issue of Good Housekeeping: “No matter what mood you’re in we have a great book for you…(Read More)
Great early reviews in from Booklist and Publishers Weekly; “Surprising…depth and magnitude… Korkeakivi fluidly fuses the past and the present…powerfully exploring whether redemption from past regrets is possible and the lengths one must go to attain it.” – Publisher’s Weekly “A seemingly simple Parisian dinner party fraught with hidden tensions sets the stage…(Read More)
An Unexpected Guest was featured as a recommended book on the radio program “Speed Reads,” WRS (World Radio Switzerland…(Read More)
