Mark Henshaw has lived in France, Germany, Yugoslavia and the USA. He currently lives in Canberra where he was for many years curator at the National Gallery of Australia. He is now writing full-time.
A novel of exquisite beauty, which evades categorisation
*The Times*
A striking piece of work, with all the intricate, precise beauty of
an origami bird
*Lady*
Gripping... each chapter builds on the one before, unfolding
through levels of story to unpack deeper and deeper truths
*Guardian*
Wonderful...a novel of detection, a thriller of the intellect
*Sydney Morning Herald*
Stunning and hypnotic... You won't read another novel like THE SNOW
KIMONO this year, or perhaps for many to come
*Asian Review of Books*
This book casts a spell from the start....A highly original book
full of small sensations with the bonus of being a joy to read
*Shots Magazine*
Strongly atmospheric, the vivid scenery of Japan resonates through
Henshaw's carefully placed words as he creates a psychological
thriller
*Scottish Woman*
The novel questions authorship and the slipperiness of
memory...[Its] narrative twists are challengingly clever
*Australian Book Review*
The writing is beautiful: pellucid and wonderfully visual, painting
memorable landscape cameos. The reader is compliant, willingly
engaged with a story that starts in medias res and branches in
unexpected and seemingly unconnected yet complementary
directions
*Advertiser*
Masterful...a tale almost as seamless, and of such a rich fabric,
as one of Sachiko's mother's famous kimonos
*Sydney Review of Books*
Henshaw creates a world of psychological complexity and emotional
subtlety in a story that moves from Paris to Japan and back
again...Henshaw's prose shimmers as his narrative becomes ever more
nuanced, complex, and misleading
*Kirkus Reviews*
Henshaw's prose [is] luminous and crisp, like the snowy countryside
of Japan or the barren lanes of Algiers...When I finished The Snow
Kimono, I raised my head, vaguely surprised that I was at home, in
familiar surrounds, and it was still daylight outside. I turned
straight back to page one and began again
*Saturday Paper*
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