Sister Europe

Sophisticated and rambunctiously comic, this is a worldly hangout novel of twenty-first century manners * Vogue, Best Books of 2025 * Zink’s new novel unleashes a motley crew of characters on an unexpected nocturnal journey through the city, painting a vivid picture of a continent at a critical moment * Financial Times, What to Read in 2025 * Sister Europe assembles a motley crew of disconnected dinner party guests to explore a whole society’s hypocrisies. Unsparingly honest on the wealthy ex-pat and the professional artist, this novel feels like a big new swing from a thrilling stylist. * Lit Hub, Best Books of 2025 * Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know -- Jonathan Franzen A talent that is as rare and strange as a kestrel on Oxford Street * The Sunday Times * Zink is an audacious writer . . . she always creates vibrant, off-kilter worlds for her characters to inhabit * The Times * This is a one-of-a-kind writer * Elle * Zink’s prose is an always fascinating instrument, one as flitting and amorphous as the attention span of her characters . . . Her sentences can stun, perfectly nailing a situation or emotion * The Spectator * Zink has instantly become one of the most unusual, refreshing voices in contemporary fiction. Her work is completely unfettered by genteel literary conventions and replete with robust storytelling . . . * Slate *