Jeff Talarigo
Author
| Jeff Talarigo is the author of the award winning novel, The Pearl Diver, which won the 2005 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award and was named a 2005 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book. His second novel, The Ginseng Hunter, noted as one of the "Best Books of 2008" by NPR and an American Libarary Association's "Notable Books for 2009", will be released in paperback in April of 2009. Talarigo currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where he is working on a novel about 20th Century Gaza as seen through the eyes of a Palestinian woman. |
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Praise for The Ginseng Hunter - “As incendiary as it is restrained, Talarigo's spare, evocative story provides a crucial voice to a tyrannized country.” -- Booklist (starred) ...read more
“Hypnotic . . . Talarigo’s prose is as evocative as a Hokusai woodcut.” --Los Angeles Times ...read more
“The prose is spare and immaculate, the description of life in the narrator's valley is simultaneously vivid and bleak, and the depiction of the best and worst of what mankind is capable can only encourage us to be better people.” -- Nancy Pearl Book Reviews on KUOW-FM in Seattle ... read more or download mp3
“Hypnotic . . . Talarigo’s prose is as evocative as a Hokusai woodcut.” --Los Angeles Times ...read more
“The prose is spare and immaculate, the description of life in the narrator's valley is simultaneously vivid and bleak, and the depiction of the best and worst of what mankind is capable can only encourage us to be better people.” -- Nancy Pearl Book Reviews on KUOW-FM in Seattle ... read more or download mp3
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