Fate

"A moving testament to the beauty and banality of human relationships." -Publishers Weekly

"A masterpiece that refuses to stay still."** -Culture Trip**"Fate could be likened to a pointillist painting by Seurat, with each dab of colour and each descriptive passage contributing to what is finally a beautifully structured and brilliantly shimmering whole."** -New York Magazine (The Strategist UK)"In the realm of fiction, an author has total authority over their characters, and they can inject interactions with meaning and pattern-play in a way therapists warn us not to in our day to day lives. It takes a particular level of craftsmanship to do this at the level of the sentence, with the effortlessness that Consiglio seamlessly achieves, and to sweep a reader so tenderly into the progress." -White Review**"A muted and unhurried novel that insists on the validity of the imperfect present."** -Kirkus**"The beauty of this novel...is that it provides no answers, but many questions. It can be reflected upon, re-read, and reconsidered."** -BookBlast**"The language of Fate has teeth and claws."** -Books and Bao**"Fate is a rich tapestry of language, a sharp depiction of the vagaries of fate and a thoughtful meditation on the human condition."** -The Monthly Booking**"Consiglio's writing aches with poetry through its attention and complexity."** -The Skinny**"Packed full of sensuality and written in fresh, candid prose."** -The Quietus**** Praise for Jorge Consiglio**"Employing a language that is sharp, concise and visceral, it proves his talent as a natural storyteller and as a social chronicler and poet of some refinement."** -Morning Star**"There is a timeless quality to Consiglio's prose...a storyteller of rare ingenuity."** -Splice**"His stories are told with dispassionate realism while being varnished with a surrealist gloss, creating his own in-between style...Occasional poetic turns reminiscent of Pablo Neruda erupt within the narrative."** -Culture Trip**"[Consiglio] carves out a singular space by focusing on characters who do not quite have a place of their own."** -Full Stop**