Ghost Geographies: Fictions

From the reviews for Dobozy's previous book, Siege 13 (Thomas Allen, 2012):

“The sheer variety of Dobozy's approaches to telling stories, and his commitment not only to provoke thought but to entertain constitute a virtuoso performance. Siege 13 is without question one of my favorite story collections ever.”
— Jeff VanderMeer, The Washington Post

“Siege-13 marks not only a turn toward history but also a leap forward in ambition. Individually, its stories alternate between war-torn Budapest and the emigre circles of present-day North America. Together, they seek to do for the Hungarian diaspora what Alice Munro did for the hardscrabble citizens of Huron Country, Ontario, or Isaac Babel for the Jews of Odessa ... More impressive still, because less studied, is Dobozy's prose. His diction is plain-spoken, but the cadences are lovely and swell his sentences to unusual, sinuous length.”
— Garth Risk Halberg, The New York Times

"Masterful ... dazzling. [E]ngrosing intellectual puzzles any historically minded reader with thrill to wrestle with."
— Brett Josef Grubisic, National Post

"[A] master architect of this genre ... For all his seriousness, Dobozy has a deadpan comic touch to make readers laugh even as he crushes our hearts."
— Cynthia-Marie OBrien, Words Without Borders

"These tales both narrate and witness the power of fiction, the writing and rewriting the narratives of life, the search to find a bearable self."
— Linda Morefield, Washington Independent Review of Books

"Stunning ... Carefully crafted, but executed with seeming effortlessness, every sentence in this collection, every paragraph, is a thing of beauty, and the stories themselves are without flaws ... These are stories that should not be rushed through."
— Robert Wiersema, Quill & Quire