David Constantine

Named to Kirkus Reviews Best Story Collections of 2015

New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

Wall Street Journal

Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Minneapolis Star Tribune

The Sunday Times

The Times Literary Supplement

Rich and allusive and unashamedly moving.”

—The Independent

“Spellbinding.”—The Irish Times

the man whose only thought was not to die, who had no other interest, no other conversation, nobody else’s doings, hopes, fears, interested him in the least, nothing in the world outside himself, no past, present or future, nothing, all he thought about and spoke about was how not to die.

To his wife, family, friends, colleagues, strangers he became a living horror, his black eyes, black as anthracite, burning brilliantly in his sunken face