The Queen of the Night

One doesn’t so much read The Queen of the Night as one is bewitched by it – Hanya Yanagihara, author of the Man Booker shortlisted ‘A Little Life’
A wild opera of a novel and the perfect summer read: swift, smart, immersive and gorgeous * Guardian *
A celebration … of creativity, ingenuity, endurance, mastery and grace * New York Times *
A more impressive, richly imagined novel I have not read in many years. From its heroine’s first entrance, The Queen of the Night grabbed me and kept me rapt as it writhed and contorted its way through love and murder, courtesans and empresses, fates and curses * Financial Times *
A masterfully written book. Chee, just, is masterful. I loved this novel – Roxane Gay
An epic novel, brilliantly extravagant * Vogue *
Lush and sweeping … A moving meditation on the transformative power of fate, art, time, and sheer survival * Publishers Weekly *
Sprawling, soaring, bawdy and plotted like a fine embroidery * National Public Radio *
It just sounds terrific. It sounds like opera * New Yorker *
A night at an opera you’ll wish never-ending – Helen Oyeyemi, author of ‘Boy, Snow, Bird’ and ‘Mr. Fox’

Alexander Chee won a Whiting Award for his first novel, Edinburgh, and is a recipient of the NEA Fellowship in Fiction and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Ledig House and Civitella Ranieri. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, and NPR, among others, and he is a contributing editor at the New Republic. He has recently been selected as a prestigious LA Times critic-at-large. He lives in New York City.

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