Review in the Guardian:

Tokarczuk’s prose is simple and unadorned. She tells her stories with a natural fluency that easily accommodates the hopes, drudgery and absurdities of the world she is describing. Real lives mingle with the imagined, dreams with day, past with present in an entirely plausible way. A lot of nasty things happen and many people die but the tone is by no means gloomy in tone. As Marta, the voice of folk wisdom in the book, points out: ‘If death were nothing but bad, people would stop dying immediately.’ House of Day, House of Night opens its doors on a very fresh and vibrant Polish talent.

Shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2004.