Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
AGlobe and MailBest Book“What she has made in this case—thanks to a rare fusion of imagination and intellect, sensual poetry and cerebral prose, youthful joy and elderly wisdom—is an entire world, compressed but energetically alive in all its details. When we have artists like this, who needs gods?”—The Observer “Byatt’s prose is majestic, the lush descriptive passages––jewelled one minute, gory the next––a pleasure to get lost in.”—The Telegraph “The stern beauty of the writing makes the slender book frighteningly compelling.”—National Post “The pleasures afforded by this treatment of the myth are numerous. Byatt paints beautiful and fantastic word-pictures, glittering verbal special effects.”—The Scotsman “Brilliantly effective. . . . Surely among the most beautiful and incisive [pages] Byatt has ever written.”—The Independent