Critical Praise

"Hoffman’s prose is reliably gorgeous…what’s memorable is the way Hoffman maps the intersection of art, history and man's striving for meaning."

—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"A novel richly imagined, exquisitely written, and completely spellbinding."

—Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper’s Wife

"An organic portrait of a thinking, feeling artist coming to terms with her world."

—Times Literary Supplement

"Adagio, accelerando --- words that mark the way music moves through time and, in Eva Hoffman’s acute new novel, describe the dynamic of human emotion…Hoffman’s eloquent insights into ‘the intimate history of violence’ ring startlingly true."

—O, The Oprah Magazine