Hunger.
An exquisite little book... Blackwell craftily weaves history and botany through this utterly devourable narrative... A compact embarrassment of riches.
Los Angeles Times
In Elise Blackwell’s original and engrossing short novel, Leningrad during the German siege forms the background for an exploration of love and betrayal, as well as for some richly sensual evocations of the pleasures of eating.
J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Laureate
Perfectly judged, beautifully executed... Hunger has been called harrowing, but it is also uplifting.
Daily Telegraph
Spare, searing... A finely angled vision into hell, a spare portrait of the banality of survival.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Insightful and gripping ... Hunger examines both the limitations and the possibilities of the human character... Fascinating for its study of how human behavior shifts when faced with the most extreme circumstances and when motivated by fear... Hunger brings human behavior into sharp relief.
San Francisco Chronicle
An intensely lyrical work.
Irish Times
A brilliant novel of desperation, love and betrayal that packs a punch belying its compact size.
Glasgow Herald
All the more chilling for its poetic economy, Hunger captures a sweeping catastrophe through one man’s tale of belated conscience. It is a haunting reminder that history has no mercy, that no matter how lofty our circumstances or out ideals, we may be tested terribly at any moment by the times in which we live.
Julia Glass, winner of the National Book Award
Hunger was a Los Angeles Times “best book of 2003,” a Sydney Morning Herald “best read of the year,” a Book Sense pick, and a Borders Original Voices selection. Hunger was also the inspiration for “When the War Came” by the Decemberists.
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