Signed, Mata Hari - Softcover

In SIGNED, MATA HARI, Yannick Murphy once again treats us to her luscious signature lyric style, its whispers and perfumes, in this time- and space-bending tale of the famous dancer and accused spy. Told through small, impressionistic scenes and reveries, this story of an enigmatic woman hangs timeless between the unreality of her present and the clarity and urgency of her past (Janet Fitch, author of PAINT IT BLACK and WHITE OLEANDER)

Yannick Murphy, while being one of our most daring and original writers, is first and foremost an exquisitely attuned observer of human behavior. Her characters are so richly imagined and believable that when you're finished with one of her books, you ex (Dave Eggers)

More stunning, even, than this lush, luscious, prose is how Yannick Murphy turns preconceived notions inside out. Rendered with great insight and compassion, Murphy's Mata Hari is revealed, not as a spy, but as a sympathetic and intensely complicated woman. A wife, a mother, a lover, an artist, she is worthy of our admiration and of our hearts. Signed, Mata Hari is a thrilling and a devastating novel (Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of AN ALMOST PERFECT MOMENT)

Brilliant in its structure, beautiful in its language, rich in its characterization, Yannick Murphy's new novel, SIGNED, MATA HARI, also happens to have at its center one of the most fascinating figures of the early twentieth century, a woman who ached d (Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain)