"Antoni is an audacious storyteller, mining his very own language and ways of telling from the linguistic cornucopia of Trinidad. His story is moving and is also hilarious."
--Lawrence Scott, author of "Light Falling on Bamboo"
"Like the preserved hummingbirds at its center, this novel is a tender and strange object, referencing something no longer with us, but maintained in its beauty as art."
--Tiphanie Yanique, author of "How to Escape from a Leper Colony"
"Robert Antoni is one of the great comic writers of the New World--that sweaty, sun-blasted, eternally baroque, dystopia where our tears, issued from laughter or sorrow or more often both, have the potency of overproof rum. "As Flies to Whatless Boys" is a mishmash merriment of an adventure story, an island of luscious prose in a sea of delight."
--Bob Shacochis, author of "The Woman Who Lost Her Soul"
"Antoni is an audacious storyteller, mining his very own language and ways of telling from the linguistic cornucopia of Trinidad. His story is moving and is also hilarious."
--Lawrence Scott, author of "Light Falling on Bamboo"
"A pleasure of a read. A lovely artifact of a book. A delight on many levels, and a deeply felt, deeply moving novel."
--Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud (Blog)
"A marvel of a novel, layered in histories, Robert Antoni's unique and engaging "As Flies to Whatless Boys" is an unforgettable and matchless work of fiction. A crowning achievement in an exceptional body of work by this amazingly talented writer."
--Edwidge Danticat, author of "Claire of the Sea Light"
""As Flies to Whatless Boys" is a brilliant novel that is rivetingly localized in a distant time and an untouched place, and yet somehow speaks vibrantly to this present age and to the universal human condition. Robert Antoni is a treasure of our literary culture."
--Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain"
"Like the preserved hummingbirds at its center, this novel is a tender and strange object, referencing something no longer with us, but maintained in its beauty as art."
--Tiphanie Yanique, author of "How to Escape from a Leper Colony"
"Robert Antoni is one of the great comic writers of the New World--that sweaty, sun-blasted, eternally baroque, dystopia where our tears, issued from laughter or sorrow or more often both, have the potency of overproof rum. "As Flies to Whatless Boys" is a mishmash merriment of an adventure story, an island of luscious prose in a sea of delight."
--Bob Shacochis, author of "The Woman Who Lost Her Soul"
"Antoni is an audacious storyteller, mining his very own language and ways of telling from the linguistic cornucopia of Trinidad. His story is moving and is also hilarious."
--Lawrence Scott, author of "Light Falling on Bamboo"
"Robert Antoni doesn't make giant steps. He makes quantum--and sometimes hilarious--leaps past whatever we called metafiction to the same territory as Richard Powers and David Foster Wallace. But like those men and unlike nearly everybody else, her
"Antoni has a fine ear for cultural tensions and a wicked sense of humor."
--Ocean Drive Magazine
As Flies to Whatless Boys has been longlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award!
Winner of the 2014 OCM Bocas Prize! Included in World Literature Today's Nota Benes, Summer 2014 One of Edwidge Danticat's Best Books of 2013, the New Yorker A Favorite Novel of 2013, Tin House "William's account of young love attests to Antoni's fluency in the poetry of nostalgia. In words as vibrant as the personalities he creates, Antoni deftly captures unconquered territories and the risks we're willing to take exploring them.""Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.
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