"This book is a Norse Arabian Nights. Each section is a honeycomb. Stories are nested in stories and crack open to reveal rumor and anecdote, prose poems, tendrils of myth. This abundance isn’t an empty show of virtuosity but rooted in Sjon’s belief in the power and obligation of old-fashioned storytelling."

The New York Times Books praises CODEX 1962 by Sjon:

“I’m neither alive nor dead,” Saviano said. “They didn’t kill me. But they haven’t let me live.”

The New York Times looks at Roberto Saviano's life since the publication of his first book, and the true story behind THE PIRANHAS, out today!