Sister Europe

Searingly quick, revelatory and funny. Sister Europe is so ambitious and ethically interested that it makes it clear that Zink is one of our most important contemporary writers

Searingly quick, revelatory and funny. Sister Europe is so ambitious and ethically interested that it makes it clear that Zink is one of our most important contemporary writers

A novel that fizzes with repartee and off kilter cleverness

Sophisticated and rambunctiously comic, this is a worldly hangout novel of twenty-first century manners

Zink’s new novel unleashes a motley crew of characters on an unexpected nocturnal journey through the city, painting a vivid picture of a continent at a critical moment

Sister Europe assembles a motley crew of disconnected dinner party guests to explore a whole society’s hypocrisies. Unsparingly honest on the wealthy ex-pat and the professional artist, this novel feels like a big new swing from a thrilling stylist.

The work of an author with a fiercely original and empathetic voice. One leaves the book wanting more of it.

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know

A talent that is as rare and strange as a kestrel on Oxford Street

Zink is an audacious writer . . . she always creates vibrant, off-kilter worlds for her characters to inhabit

This is a one-of-a-kind writer

Nell Zink is the author of six acclaimed novels including her debut, The Wallcreeper , described by the Sunday Times as a ‘a slim, strange masterpiece’, the National Book Award-longlisted Mislaid , a New York Times Book of the Year Doxology, and, most recently, Avalon . She has been praised by Jonathan Franzen as ‘a writer of extraordinary talent and range’. She had previously worked as a secretary, with stints in masonry, technical writing, and translating. Her other writing has appeared in n+1 , Granta , and Harper’s Magazine. She lives in Berlin.