Critical Praise
"The Fig Eater takes readers, with mesmerizing clarity, to Vienna in 1910.... Ms. Shields flashes dazzling stereopticon slides of a city floating between opposites: the fading nineteenth century and the bustling twentieth, the analytical male point of view and the intuitive female, the scientific and the superstitious. Ms. Shields has a powerful gift for poetic and painterly imagery. Her startling scenes, rich in metaphor, linger long in memory."
-Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal
"A compelling novel.... Shields achieves atmospheric suspense.... The engaging details of Viennese life build a picture of a city in the throes of turbulent intellectual and social change.... A sprinkling of Hungarian legend and gypsy lore adds another layer of color to Shields's evocation of the era."
-Publishers Weekly
- Category:
- FICTION
- Format:
- TRADE PAPERBACK
- Publish Date:
- 3/6/2001
- Price:
- $13.99
- ISBN:
- 9780316785266
- Pages:
- 368
- Size:
- 5-1/2" x 8-7/16"
