Tintin in the New World

Frederic Tuten Press Reviews

“Frederic Tuten grabs Tintin by his quaff, yanks him out of his celibacy, life and innocence and drops him into sex, death, and experience… A wildly inventive allegorical fantasy, Tintin in the New World is a serious novel hiding behind a comic-book conceit, which is also extremely funny.” The Times

“This strange and memorable novel… its strength lies in its extraordinary use of language, which combines fastidious exactness with a bizarre yet persuasive dreamlike quality.” Jonathan Coe, London Review of Books

“Tuten’s novel offers the reader a pleasure no less keen than that of Herge’s comic albums, although of an entirely different genre. It is a pleasure of the mind, not easily come to, but also worth it once you are there: the pleasure, I suppose, of coming to a new world.” The Believer

“Frederic Tuten is a magician, and in Tintin in the New World he has taken his most ambitious, most inspired journey. I love the way the novel deepens as it goes, the music of it, the sadness, and the inventive humour,” Susan Sontag, author of The Volcano Lover

“The great detectives are not policmen but seekers of truth. It is in this spirit that Tintin tries to solve our greatest mysteries. In his last adventure (or maybe his first), through Frederic Tuten’s beautiful and insightful prose, the little detective explores his mind, his body and the heinous criminality of the twentieth century.” Walter Mosley, author of White Butterfly

“A complex delight… It’s a book with a world in it.” Larry McMurty, author of Lonesome Dove