Elizabeth Knox is the author of seventeen books, including the award-winning novels The Vintner's Luck, Dreamhunter, and Dreamquake, which received awards from the ALA, CCBC, Booklist, and The New York Public Library. An Arts Foundation Laureate, an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, and the recipient of the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction, she lives with her husband and son in Wellington, New Zealand, where she teaches a course on world building at Victoria University.
Praise for Elizabeth Knox and The Absolute Book
"Majestic, brain-bending . . . Every once in a while, as a reader,
you run into one of those books that is just too big for your mind
to entirely take in. . . . It's quite bracing to come up against
the hard edge of your own imagination as you try to pursue a
visionary author through the limitless expanse of hers. This is all
to say that the experience of reading the New Zealand writer
Elizabeth Knox's contemporary fantasy novel The Absolute Book
reminded me of how I felt reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
or The Left Hand of Darkness or His Dark Materials or, to move out
of genre, Life After Life or The Underground Railroad. I felt that
my position in relation to the book's capacious intellect and
imagination and moral purpose was a vertiginous one. It was
thrilling and frightening. . . . Each time I thought the book was
done surprising me, Knox flexed her own golden gauntlet and opened
another gate and flung me through it."
-Dan Kois, Slate
"This darkly luminous fantasy reads like a mystery, thoroughly and
wonderfully transporting readers to another world."
-Kirkus
"An astonishing novel from an author I have long loved,
The Absolute Book catches the reader up on the very first
page and carries them away in an exhilarating rush."
-Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble
"Gorgeous . . . The payoffs and reveals are mind-blowing."
-Laini Taylor, author of Daughter of Smoke and Bone
"Elizabeth Knox has the most original and lateral literary mind in
New Zealand."
-Metro
"Explosive and surprising . . . quite brilliant."
-The Spinoff (NZ)
"The Absolute Book's power is in the skill and pace of
Knox's storytelling, the perfect spinning of the intricate plot,
the sharp dialogue and luminous evocation of place. Knox's
landscapes are vivid and beautiful, both the earthly and the
otherworldly. I was carried along without objection, and the great
pleasure for me, along with the simple one of wanting to know what
would happen next, was the feeling that my realist mind had been
flattened out - that I had, temporarily, due to the intensity and
momentum of the narrative, made some kind of mental shift, lost the
compulsion to search for psychological depth (always a source of
disquiet) and gone back to an earlier imaginative state, one that
pulsed with mysterious possibility."
-Charlotte Grimshaw, Noted (NZ)
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