This book should make Rita Indiana a literary superstar.' Josh Cook, Porter Square Books, Boston, MA, and author of An Exaggerated Murder - `Tentacle reaches back and forward through the ages, harnessing the fluidity of time, gender, and the natural world to reflect on colonial history and imagine a deeply disturbing future. Unlike any dystopian novel you've read, Indiana pushes and stretches the form like an octopus working its way through a maze to pose fundamental questions about gender, identity, and society. Music is referenced, and biology, conservationism too, and it's full of wit, thanks to the way Rita Indiana tells it.' SWR2 Radio - 'A fasten-your-seat-belt, strap-on-your-crash-helmet novel of magic, time travel, art, buccaneers, ecological disaster, and more. There's so much in it: the history of the Dominican Republic, politics and of course religion. In this way she infects the visible world with the invisible world.' Ralph Hammerthaler, Suddeutsche Zeitung - `Rita Indiana is comfortable with the language of modern technology, but her joy in storytelling, the effervescence of her imagination and the way she wraps stories within stories are all firmly part of a Latin American tradition: Tentacle recalls important works from the sixties like Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.' Eva Karnofsky, Deutschlandfunk Radio - `A great novel. Many of Tentacle's characters are reincarnations of earlier lives and linked to those lives. Her literary tricks come from the oral traditions of voodoo and Santeria. When the denouement comes it is brutal and irresistibly attractive.'Judith von Sternburg, Frankfurter Rundschau -`Merengue star Indiana knows how to get things dancing. The characters achieve that the author never intrudes between them and us. Tentacle is a kind of pulp fiction for educated classes, a wild but carefully conceived combination of sci-fi adventure, art-world-cum-hipster-satire, eco- and socially-aware thriller, with a work of Caribbean studies breaking in from the side. So fast-paced that it must be swallowed whole, for setting it aside is as dangerous as jumping from a speeding motorcycle.' El Pais on Papi - `Rita Indiana is unclassifiable.

She's one of those rare artists whose music you can either dance to or sit down and listen to as if it were a great novel.' Alt.Latino, NPR.org`Reads like an extended song. Not only is she one of the most exciting Dominican authors in recent years, she is also a musical force to be reckoned with. `Rita Indiana is fearless and brilliant and Tentacle is her finest novel, an unforgettable experience.' Junot Diaz'Indiana is truly a renaissance woman.

Tentacle by Rita Indiana