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MICHAEL ZAPATA
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Winner of the 2020 Chicago Review of Books Award (CHIRBy) in Fiction 
Finalist for the 2020 Heartland Booksellers Award in Fiction

​A NPR Best Book of 2020
A BookPage Best Book of 2020​
An A.V. Club Best Book of 2020
A Los Angeles Public Library Best Book of 2020

A Library Journal Best Winter/Spring Debut of 2020
A Boston Globe Most Anticipated Book of 2020 
The Millions Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2020 Book Preview
A Best Book of February 2020 at Salon, Lit Hub, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and Chicago Review of Books
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“Hypnotizing…Zapata reinterprets the extent and toll of exile on Earth, the gulf between universes of human experience.” 
— The New York Times Book Review

"Smart and heart-piercing, Lost Book is a story of displacement, erasure, identity, mythology, and the ability of literature to simultaneously express and transcend our lives — not to mention reality." 
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— NPR

"Deftly conjured…thematically vital…Zapata’s carefully crafted prose oscillates between matter-of-fact and lyrically poetic." 
 — The Washington Post 


“[An] expansive, big-hearted and time-hopping debut…[Zapata’s] sensibility is one of great love for human beings and for life itself.” 
 — The Chicago Tribune


​“An absolutely stunning piece of work, and it is the best book you’ll read so far this year.”
— Newcity Lit 


[An] elegant and sweeping multigenerational, international story of lives marked by political violence and bound by the shared condition of exile.”
— Salon


“In a lyrical tale spanning a century and veering from the colonized Caribbean to revolutionary Russia, from mid-twentieth-century Chicago to Katrina-besieged New Orleans, Zapata spins an iridescent web of grief, loss, and memory...A lush, spellbinding tale.”    
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— Booklist STARRED Review


 "Zapata’s lyrical style has firm roots in Gabriel García Márquez’s work, with a boldness of delivery to the tune of Jorge Luis Borges...Zapata has treated us to a thrillingly mysterious storyline with a beautiful payoff."
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--BookPage STARRED review

"An illuminating work on trauma and the transience of human existence... A heady literary and genre-bending novel for fans of Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, and Adolfo Bioy Caseres."
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Library Journal STARRED review


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