Books Quote by MiddleRoad Publishers

“After a first novel—"Racing in the Rain" (2012)— introducing a Caribbean, steaming in post-colonial turbulence, Ken Puddicombe follows up with Junta, another suspenseful tale…

— MiddleRoad Publishers

“A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers,…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

— Ismail Kadaré

“Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the fear &…

— Shomprakash Sinha Roy

“Why is this so critical to the ruling junta? Because they know that the moment the People realize that their common enemies are not…

— Joseph Befumo

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

— Ai Weiwei

“The Republicrat Junta promotes our separation into fragmented ethnic, religious, and social groups, for well they know that to divide is to conquer. Their…

— Joseph Befumo

“BOOK FIFTH.—THE DESCENT.”

— Victor Hugo

“An exile's only country is his country's literature.”

— Andreï Makine

“Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.”

— Novalis

When I wrote my first serious novel, 'Interior', I was inspired by a 1978 book of Updike's, 'The Coup', which is set in Africa…

— Justin Cartwright

“No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World”

— Gabrielle Zevin