Premiere Readings: Edward Lee about NARAKA

Author Edward Lee about my forthcoming novel NARAKA (In English, Independent Legions, May 2018)

​“Have a taste of the ‘caviar of abomination.’ Wow! I am unable to think of a more original novel in any genre. If pressed to categorize this work which defies categorization, I’d have to call it Dystopic Alternate-Technology Reverse-Steampunk Orwellian Hallucinotic Cyber-Smut-Horror. Each paragraph is a delectable new treat in what you should think of as a diabolical Whitman’s Sampler from Hell. I’ve never taken LSD and now I don’t have to; after finishing NARAKA, its hideous, chimeral imagery raced ceaseless Tartarean circles in my brain, like a spew of appalling living things, and I was helpless to stop it. This book is a must-read for fans of any type of heavy-weight non-mainstream fiction, an unparalleled literary carpet-bombing that will warp your mind for some time to come.”
--Edward Lee, author of THE BIGHEAD and WHITE TRASH GOTHIC

NARAKA by Alessandro Manzetti
​Translated  by Daniele Bonfanti
Editing: Michael Bailey
​Cover Art: Wendy Saber Core
Independent Legions, May 2018