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A native of Calgary and of New Hampshire, Nancy Huston now lives in Paris; she writes in both French and English. The author of nine novels and numerous works of non-fiction, she has won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, the Prix du Livre-Inter, the Prix Elle, the Governor General's Award for Fiction in French and the 2006 Prix Femina. Fault Lines, her previous novel, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.Huston... is a master of emotional shifts and indirection; what looks like meandering in <i>Infrared</i> is a narrative chess game, every move worth watching.
New York Times
[<i>Infrared</i>] has a thrilling emotional cohesion. Huston's prose is magnetic. This is daring writing which pushes the novel of ideas into a new world.
Independent
Distinctive, provocative... impresses in its ambition
Daily Mail
An erotic coming-of-age story, perfect for fans of Siri Hustvedt and Zoë Heller
Grazia
Bold and exciting
Red
Flows with a thematic coherence built up out of many small and tenuously connected episodes. Huston shows her usual mastery of complicated structure, her wide cultural knowledge and her brilliant, assured portraiture.
Globe and Mail
Poetic... ruminative and sensual
National Post