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)
Lovely first review in Library Journal – readers be warned, the full text contains spoilers. “…Moving between the starched-napkin ambience of high-level diplomacy and urgent questions of revolutionary activity, this engaging debut novel gently probes both without forcing insurmountable choices on its characters.” – Barbara Hoffert, in Library Journal…(Read More)
U.S. publication date for An Unexpected Guest is April 17, 2012…(Read More)
Booker-prize short-listed in 1994, this beautiful book set in a changing, pre-WWI East Africa deserves much wider acclaim…(Read More)
“It was the image of this tiny but indomitable twosome, neither of whom had contracted AIDS, that stayed with me. Every morning the nine-year-old girl would lead her baby brother to the treacherous coltan mines, where he’d work for hours at a stretch running his small hands through mud, searching for colombo…(Read More)
“I’d use the hours on the train to twist and turn our relationship over in my head, bending and inverting it, hoping to end up with a shape I could understand. I knew that an intelligent, liberated woman like myself was supposed to expect more from a relationship, but I couldn’t stop waxing…(Read More)
Little, Brown will issue an international edition of An Unexpected Guest, to appear in April 2012…(Read More)
