Dantes Indiana

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http://.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/00_BK004-BO_DANTES-INDIANA_SAMPLE.mp3ADivine Comedyof our times.John Irving, author ofThe World According to GarpA 2022 ReLit Award Finalist AWinnipeg Free PressTop Read of 2021FollowingOriginal Prin, aNYTBREditors Choice andGlobe and MailBest Book,Dantes Indianais an extraordinary journey through the divine comedies and tragedies of our time.Middle-aged, married, but living on his own, Prin has lost his way. Desperate for money and purpose, he moves to small-town Indiana to work for an evangelical millionaire whos building a theme park inspired by DantesInferno. He quickly becomes involved in the difficult lives of his co-workers and in the wider struggles of their opioid-ravaged community while trying to reconcile with his distant wife and distant God. Both projects spin out of control, and when a Black teenager is killed, creationists, politicians and protesters alike descend. In the midst of this American chaos, Prin risks everything to help the lost and angry souls around him while searching for his own way home.FollowingOriginal Prin, aNew York Times Book ReviewEditors Choice andGlobe and MailBest Book,Dantes Indianais affecting and strange, intimate and big-heartedan extraordinary journey through the darkly divine comedies of our time.Audiobook read by the authorPraise forDantes Indiana[Dantes Indiana] mixes the outrageous social satire of George Saunders or Salman Rushdie with Prins more solemn and inward religious searching. The unique result juxtaposes the ridiculous and the sublimefitting as both an homage to Dante and a portrayal of America.Sam Sacks,Wall Street JournalWitty and wrenching.Globe & MailDantes Indianasucceeds as a funny, unpredictable and occasionally moving tale.Winnipeg Free PressBoyagoda set himself a challenge, and its one that hes up to Boyagoda makes it seem easy with a series of apt similes This is the sort of imaginative verbal panache that in our own vernacular pays tribute to Dante as literary guide The classics, however, are always reimagined in ways that respond to the personal anxieties and public crises of our own time. In the shattered funhouse of the twenty-first century we may be expected to redefine the content of a faith that sustains.Toronto StarRandy Boyagodas satirical updating of theDivine Comedy.University of Toronto QuarterlyBoyagoda keeps things moving quickly and imaginatively. He skewers hosts of sinners along the way, but the wit has a winsome empathy behind it. A rollicking, inventive, mostly successful satirewith a vein of seriousness and sadness underneath.Kirkus ReviewsAn entertaining and theologically deft take on the consequences of the choices we all make as we seek the Good Dantes Indianais a superb literary achievement.Kevin Duffy,Eurasia ReviewThe antics of Boyagodas characters are as tragicomically uproarious as they are startlingand yet, as presented, also entirely believable. The plot delightfully follows Aristotles advice to prefer the plausible impossibility to the implausible possibility. What ensues is a genuine levity that lifts the reader over substantive plot points that, less sensitively handled, could raise a multitude of defenses. By lighthearted treatment of the truly ridiculous, Boyagoda earns the right to look with authentic compassion on characters serious sorrows.Fare ForwardBoyagodas novel might be one of the best ways to remember Dante forwardto remember him in the present tense. By channeling Dante in a satirical vein, Boyagoda helps us see the impulses shaping the American and global economic order as spiritual forcesand the decisions made by individuals, communities, and even nations as products of disordered desire.Image JournalBoyagoda shows how the political is always personal and the personal is always spiritual. The last ninety pages of the novel move at break-neck speed The effect is a bit dizzying, but maybe thats the pointin an age where the internet connects us across oceans and time zones, no one exists in isolation and every occurrence is connected.ZYZZYVARandy Boyagoda takes a bold dive into some of societys most contentious issues in his latest novel,Dantes Indiana The theme of being lost and also being found is at the crux of Prins experience and that of the other characters. That profound idea found in Catholic liturgy and in Scripture is central to the religious tradition at play in this book.Catholic RegisterIn his most recent and best novel to date, Randy Boyagoda rides a rollercoaster that could easily derail into infernal entertainment With its admixture of playfulness and gravitas,Dantes Indianais an unlikely footnote to David Foster Wallaces peerless novelInfinite Jest, which wows readers with an extended analogy between addiction and entertainment Passing through Prins purgatorial rollercoaster, seeing the sights beyond the theme park lights, the reader is sharpened by shocks of recognition, the sort that Dantes commedia gives us.Law & LibertyDantes Indianais, like the first book, about Prins adventures in a world that is crazy and chaotic for a man of faith. And it is, also like the first, real, yet surreal. Hugely funny, yet poignant Many of us will find our stories reflected in Boyagodas work, well meet people we know.Desi NewsRandy BoyagodasDantes Indianais many thingsknee-slapping satire, social commentary, spiritual pilgrimage. But above all, it is an attempt to bringcontrapassoto bear on contemporary American life, both implicitly and explicitly As in his first novel, Boyagoda mixes the sacred and profane to great effect By locating the sacred within the profane,Dantes Indianaoffers a counternarrative to that of the culture wars Boyagodas novel is hilarious and deeply touching.Plough QuarterlyFull of memorable characters and as fast-paced as the roller coaster that will be the main ride of hell, the novel reads like a movie script Even when the plot descends into dark topics, Boyagodas eye for wit keeps the novel lighthearted Sometimes absurd, sometimes witty, the humor ofDantes Indianais always thoughtful, never hurtful, and often satirical As Prin makes his path through the twists and turns of this novel, he never gives up hope that heaven awaits on the other side of purgatory.North Texas CatholicADivine Comedyof our timesa morality play of an Everyman. An ordinary English professor, struggling to hold his marriage together, finds himself working for holy rollers and scheming businessmen. Hysterically funny, but with an underlying sadnesssuch Heaven and Hell already coexist in America, and in this novel.John Irving, author ofThe World According to GarpThe astonishing Boyagoda at his astounding best Dantes Indianais a satirical stunner, a mad Midwestern tour de force and one of the most moving, most incisive maps of our grim contrapasso present youll ever read, a novel that is both humblingly humane and soaringly divine.Dantes Indianais what would happen if SaundersCivilWarLand in Bad DeclineandMoby Dickhad a prophetic prodigal child. This book is a miracle.Junot Daz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoDantes Indianais proof that a book can be both entertaining and literaryjust like a theme park of DantesInferno. Randy Boyagoda peoples his novels with lovable characters. Theyre smart but not wise. Hurting but hopeful. Principled but exploited. The novel is political, satirical, allegorical and almost a straight-up mirror of our times. This is a book we could all use right now.Ian Williams, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author ofReproductionRandy Boyagodas writing fills me with laughter, delightand envy. With ambition and an unerring eye for detail,Dantes Indianaconjures a world that is savage, satirical, and unexpectedly tender.Aravind Adiga, Man Booker Prize-winning author ofThe White Tiger