Garden, Ashes

"Kiš’s work is gripping, a set of clever modernist experiments with a frequent core of deadly seriousness; imagine Kafka encountering the Holocaust, or Borges visiting the Gulag without losing a sense of humor and you have a rough approximation of Kiš’s accomplishment." — The Daily Beast
"...preserves the honour of literature" —Susan Sontag

"Let us not mince words here: Danilo Kiš's Garden, Ashes is an unmitigated masterpiece, surely not just one of the best books about the Holocaust, but one of the greatest books of the past century." —Aleksandar Hemon, from the introduction

"Garden, Ashes will influence the most current trends in the art of the literary avant-garde—so much so that it may even shape the course of the novel." —Le Figaro

"In Kiš's case . . . it is the consistent quality of the local prose that counts. It is how, sentence by sentence, the song is built, and immeasurable meanings meant. It is the rich regalia of his rhetoric that leads us to acknowledge his authority. On his page, trappings are not trappings, but sovereignty itself." —New York Review of Books