Astronaut!

'Part thriller, part fable, this is fascinating, funny and very moving. - highly recommended. ' - GUARDIAN. 'Brilliant, compulsive and thrilling. I will be reading this book again. ' - Alice Winn. , author of IN MEMORIAM. 'One of the best novels I've read this year. ' - Joanna Quinn. , author of The Whalebone Theatre. 'You will love this book. ' - Jennifer Croft. , translator of Flights. by Olga Tokarczuk and author of The Extinction of Irena Rey. ~ ~ ~Romania, 1989:. a grey place of mysterious queues, ubiquitous informers and daily news flashes about a man-eating bear. that is terrorising the country. Amidst the daily drudge of work, rationing and careful conversation with neighbours, two lives unexpectedly collide when an idealistic police detective, Constantin. , is tasked with solving a string of grisly murders, and a rebellious school child, Lia. , is unwittingly drawn into her elderly neighbour's seditious plot. Dryly satirical, incredibly tense and deeply moving, ASTRONAUT. is both a detective novel and a coming-of-age tale, one with a perennially relevant message: the lies we accept today become the truths of tomorrow. More praise for ASTRONAUT. :. 'Had me on the edge of my seat' - Kenan Orhan. , author of The Renovation. 'If Solzhenitsyn and Hans Christian Andersen had had literary offspring, it might be Oana Aristide. ' - Saïd Sayrafiezadeh. , author of American Estrangement. 'Completely absorbing. ' - Georgina Godwin. , broadcaster and literary journalist'With dark, bone-dry wit [. ] Astronaut. is quite unlike anything else so far this year. ' - IRISH TIMES.