Tatjana Soli's Reviews
Reviews of Tatjana’s Work
Jan.23.2011
Published by The Independent, UK
Harper Press £7.99
The Lotus Eaters, By Tatjana Soli
Moral ambiguity brought into sharper focus
Reviewed by David Evans
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Tatjana Soli's debut novel begins...
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Apr.03.2010
Published by Washington Post
Though the novel explores war primarily from the journalists' viewpoint, the secondary characters are generously drawn. In Soli's hands, edgy, frightened soldiers and hardened...
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Apr.04.2010
Published by New York Times Book Review
“Splendid first novel…Helen’s restlessness and grappling, her realization that “a woman sees war differently,” provide a new and fascinating perspective on Vietnam. Vivid battle...
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Mar.29.2010
Published by New York Times
Tatjana Soli’s haunting debut novel begins where it ought to end. In this quietly mesmerizing book about journalists covering the war in Vietnam, the first glimpses of the place...
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Feb.01.2010
Published by Library Journal
Library Journal
Seen through the lens of young American freelance photographer Helen Adams, this evocative debut novel is a well researched exploration of Vietnam between 1963 and...
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Feb.01.2010
Published by Kirkus
(STARRED) Soli, Tatjana
THE LOTUS EATERS
An impressive debut novel about a female photographer covering the Vietnam War.
Helen Adams is an experienced photojournalist with ten...
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Published by Janice Y. K. Lee, author of The Piano Teacher
“The very steam from Vietnam's jungles seems to rise from the pages of Tatjana Soli's tremendously evocative debut, a love story set in the hallucinatory atmosphere of war,...
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Published by Robert Stone, author of National Book Award-winning Dog Soldiers and NBA Finalist Damascus Gate
"... a vivid and memorable evocation of wartime Vietnam and the sort of
people who lived out the darkness of the war. Foreign and Vietnamese,
these people were of a time and place...
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Published by Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls, Bridge of Sighs, and That Old Cape Mag
“If you have wondered what it’s like to be a combat photographer and what kind of toll such brutal work exacts on the soul, you must read The Lotus Eaters, Tatjana Soli’s...
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Published by Tim O’Brien, National Book Award-winning author of The Things They Carried
"Set amid the twin infernos of Cambodia and Vietnam in the early 1970's, The Lotus Eaters draws the reader into a haunting world of war, betrayal, courage, obsession, and love....
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"...this is—not to mince words—a devastatingly awesome novel. It’s one of those books that I didn’t want to put down—I resented everything else that I needed to do in my life, because I didn’t want to stop reading it.”
—Nancy Pearl, Book Lust
About Tatjana
Tatjana Soli is a novelist and short story writer. Her bestselling debut novel, The Lotus Eaters, winner of the James Tait Black Prize, was a New York Times Notable Book, and finalist for the LA Times Book Award among other honors. Her stories have appeared...
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