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Critical Praise

"Speaks to Ana Menéndez’s maturity --- as a woman and a writer… [It] evoke[s] the macabre merry-go-round of reporters who have whirled in and out of Iraq… A character study of those who have found their purpose in bearing witness to bloodshed."

New York Times Book Review

"Crisscrossed with exotic shadows, memories of romance and displacement, Ana Menéndez’s new novel, The Last War, is a seductive meditation."

O, The Oprah Magazine

"An exquisitely crafted work . . . Novelists and journalists each have a different eye for detail, and Menéndez plants a foot firmly in each camp, to rich result. . . . The result is a novel, lyrically written, that feels strikingly real and heartfelt, a narrative by a woman destroying herself with imagination and doubt."

The Denver Post

"Menéndez’s descriptions of the city are haunting and shadowy. . . . A precise and subtle book, full of finely realized flashbacks, the narrator’s memories of a marriage and detailed descriptions of Istanbul and of the experience of adjusting to another home, another culture."

Miami Herald