“TIES is...the leanest, most understated and emotionally powerful novel by Domenico Starnone — the least internationally known of Italy’s leading novelists, a self-aware postmodernist in the Italo Calvino vein with a penchant for literary jokes and meta-narratives [...] TIES is the only recent novel by Starnone that doesn’t become metafiction. Instead of stories within stories, we have ‘a series of Chinese boxes,’ as Lahiri writes in a brilliant introduction that made me want to read more literary criticism by her.”
Read the full review in the New York Times Book Review.
