The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold - Reviews

"These beautifully written tales wander in and out of reality, connected by their exacting language and unexpected turns of phrase."

—Rain Taxi

"Her book evades both the poetic froufrou that bogs down some contemporary retellings of fairy tales and the saccharine fug we associate, perhaps unfairly, with Disney animation."

—Village Voice

"The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold [is] a truly original approach to the Bildungsroman, in which Kate Bernheimer has constructed a coherent and compelling narrative by cobbling together the plot lines of a wide variety of fairy tales, and my admiration for her talent as a writer, and the dazzling use to which she puts it, is of the highest order."

—Kathryn Davis

"Original and beautifully written.... Kate Bernheimer is an exceptional writer of fiction."

—Fanny Howe

"Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold is an exceptional, lovely book, beautifully enigmatic, speaking a language that mysteriously evokes the unspoken."

—Lydia Millet

"The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold ... moves about in an artful daze from past to present to a fantasyland..."

—The Reader