“The power of The Ghosts of Rome comes from the dazzling variety of voices employed, the sense of a world constructed in multiple dimensions... O’Connor has often been likened to the great Irish modernists for the lyricism of his voice-driven novels. But The Ghosts of Rome—which despite being the second in the trilogy can be read as a stand-alone novel—also situates him within a broader European tradition of memory and moral reckoning, one that returns again and again to World War II.... What emerges is not just a wartime thriller, though it is that, but a meditation on how we remember, how we resist and how, even in the darkest times, humanity endures.”
Read the full review in The New York Times Book Review.
