Zoli
From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:23rd Apr '26
£9.99
This title is due to be published on 23rd April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin
‘A great book and a marvellously crafted story’ Roddy Doyle
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Zoli Notovna is a poet by accident as much as desire. As Fascism spreads over Czechoslovakia, she and her grandfather flee an unspeakable loss to join a clan of fellow Romani harpists. As Zoli shapes the ancient songs to her times, she finds her gift embraced – by her own people, and, for the first time, by the world outside their circle.
But Zoli has become an instrument herself – wielded by the hands of the powerful. And her greatness in her art will see her severed and exiled from the people and tradition she loves, setting her on a path she must tread alone…
‘A hymn to specificity, a clamour against homogenisation … With each voice McCann performs an astonishing feat’ Richard Eyre, Guardian
‘A writer of large and driving vision … Zoli contains passages of stunning lyricism and sharp ironic force’ New York Times
‘Poetic and beautifully observed’ Daily Telegraph
Beautiful, thoughtful … sharp and scintillatingly sensual * Independent *
Zoli is such a wonderful novel. McCann is as fine, and persuasive a storyteller as any other working in English today * Scotsman *
If a writer’s higher calling is to imagine what it is to be “other”, then Colum McCann is a giant amongst us – fearless, huge-hearted, a poet with every living breath * Peter Carey *
McCann has offered us an unforgettable picture of this world * Scotland on Sunday *
A wonderful novel … McCann is as fine, and persuasive, a storyteller as any other working in English today * Scotsman *
With this haunting, poetic work McCann has surely earned his place among the country’s greats * Metro *
Zoli is an assiduously crafted and beautifully haunting story of Europe from one of Ireland’s very best novelists. Every book from Colum McCann extends his range and excavates new territories. He is an audacious and wonderfully skilled writer -- Joseph O'Connor
There is great warmth in the novel, sparked by the author’s genuine sense of commitment to this woman in both her actual and fictional forms. The story of Zoli deserves to be told, and with his gift for unpicking the seams of history, McCann brings to the fore its sad keynotes of manipulation and betrayal * Irish Times *
ISBN: 9781037204227
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
336 pages