From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “It’s rare for a novel to tread so fearlessly into the political and yet to emerge so deeply funny and humane. Gilvarry is a young talent on the rise. Watch him gallop through the mess we’ve made of our civilization with style and panache.”

  — Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story

• “The narrative crackles with satire…You’ll be twisting a lip upward at the Bellowesque brio of Gilvarry’s language…A left-handed love letter to America.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “The deepest intelligence is poetic, incisive, and inordinately funny. Heads up, folks. Alex Gilvarry just walked through the door.”

  — Colum McCann, National Book Award–winning author of Let the Great World Spin

• “[A] whirligig of a book [that] draws some striking parallels between the way we mythologize stars and the way we look at terrorists…From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant slices through these tropes, using Boy’s pure improbability as the skewering blade.”

  — Boston Globe

• “A breezy, nervy novel…It’s a sparkling onion of a book as Mr. Gilvarry peels back layer upon layer of irony…This is a deadly serious novel that often makes one laugh out loud.”

  — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• “Gracefully tackles politically charged subject matter…Like his idol Coco Chanel (arrested in 1943 for her Nazi ties), Boyet is thrust into a political spectacle of good and evil. An engaging victim of uncertain times, he’s a protagonist who will appeal to readers of all political persuasions.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant is sharply written and wryly witty, touching on the sensitivities and paranoia of post-9/11 America…Combining a Kafkaesque hero with a captivating ‘coming to New York’ story, Gilvarry’s debut is a timely and touching triumph.”

  — Booklist