REVIEWS
The novelist, already author of five books, prepares himself to launch “Vicarious” into the English market […].
Nick Mur gets ready to launch his second novel in English.
The young writer, already author of seven books, shows himself once again in the Anglo-Saxon market; after his first American novel
“Vicarious”, is about to be published in New York “Chronicles of the Crimson Dawns”, around three hundred pages,
postmodern, published by Eloquent Books.
The brilliant Gallurese author’s (graduate in Classics and Archaeology,
currently engaged with an archaeological course at Birkbeck College in London) new literary labor will be available,
besides the USA and UK bookshops, also in the specialized bookshops online.
Recently, Nick Mur received the Mention of Honour
for Narrative at the international competition A.L.I.A.S. set in Melbourne, Australia, under the sponsorship of the General
Consulate of Italy, prize conquered with the short story “The Last Witch of Mora”, written both in Italian and English.
TIZIANA SIMULA
LA NUOVA SARDEGNA, dated October 20th 2009
“Nick Mur to the Conquest of America”.
The novelist, already author of five books, prepares himself to launch “Vicarious” into the English market […].
The book is about Joseph Surgeon, a child of few talents who though has a great gift, the skill to see dead souls.
Once grown up he decides to abandon the way planned for him by his father, last heir of a Surgeons’ family, and to take advantage of
his skill becoming a mercenary hit man. It’s a story situated between materiality and spirituality,
which won’t miss to passionate all the lovers of this genre.
In the meantime, in Italy, a new novel has been published by Altromondo, “Alefbet”,
which has joined the literary competition of Cala di Volpe, resulting among the twenty-five finalists. With a spectacular dive into
fantastic, the author projects himself towards a far away post-war dwelt by a renewed society, where the reincarnations of the most
important historical characters ever live together.
An intense diving into the kingdom of imagination, conductor of all the novels of his.
TIZIANA SIMULA
LA NUOVA SARDEGNA, May 23th 2008
In the novel “Vicarious” Death’s theme offers some very interesting suggestions, and it’s tackled from the point
of view of a man who in the passage from the material to the spiritual finds out the real worth of life.
The romance goes on with a double theme, the former of the man who is compelled to accept the human limits in divine terms, the
latter of the god who makes himself human, refusing the evident possibilities of his nature.
The location, in New York, precariously poised between debuting movie-stars, Italian-American mafia and the presence of ironic figures,
gives birth to a collision of events combining the grotesque, irreverent and funny, but also sometimes touching and moving.
“Vicarious” has been able to combine many references, both literary and cinema-like. The key to the success for this romance is decidedly in
the plurality of voices and in the dynamics of the text, which transports the reader to intrigues and discoveries until the end.
FLAVIA WEISGHIZZI
(Critic for “Il Segnalibro”, Rome)
““The Silly Quest” by Nick Mur, his latest literary labour in the Dark Age.
A trip into the absurd, over the modernity; a post-human age in which nobody knows the truth about the present. A novel that goes over human limitation, a charge against the contradictions animating our society, which always tries to follow the pace of science and though isn’t able to overcome its limits.
MARCO MEZZANO
L’UNIONE SARDA, April 18th 2006
“The Silly Quest” fourth labour for the young Nick Mur.
“The main adventure for whoever’s going to read this kind of novel for the first time”, the author explains, “is just one: stop thinking in a rational manner. He’ll find out that absurd is much more logical than we all think.”
TIZIANA SIMULA
LA NUOVA SARDEGNA, 9 Aprile 2006
NICK MUR STORY, YOUNG WRITER.
A TOLKIEN IN GALLURESE SAUCE, A LOT OF FANCY AND EPICAL BATTLES
Behind the fantastic, the holy and the profane of Middle Age there’s always a direct message by common mortals. The same thought that animates Nick Mur’s stories: accepting life as it is [...]
MARCO MEZZANO
L’UNIONE SARDA, November 2nd 2004
“The narrative of “Kerub Vol. I, Antiheroes Gathering”, embraces speculative expositions sometimes giving to the story the physiognomy of a philosophical essay. Added to this, there are the qualities of the style which doesn’t rely on the literary symmetries of the lexicon, but on an excited pace, typical of the dialogue and of the mimesis of the spoken language.”
PROF. ORESTE MORANO
Teacher of Italian and Latin Language and Literature
Gramsci High School of Olbia
"[...] The plot and the language are engaging, the incursions of Kerub are narrated with an effective style, modern, informal and keen. A background irony, light but not shallow, dilutes visions in the balance between dreamtime and reality.”
MARA GIOVANNELLI
Reporter
From the Official Website of Olbia
"The young author shows to posses an easy language, not seldom ironic or humoristic, especially in the dialogues. The glossary shows all the voices of this enchanted world which belongs to different traditions where both mythological and literary characters have place.”
IL PUNTO DI VISTA
Italian Literary Review
Milan, July-September 2004
"NICK MUR’S ANTIHEROES, CLOSE TO GOOD AND EVIL".
The author says: “Antiheroes change and evolve, remaining all carriers of those values or peculiarities I recognize in this society. The book doesn’t offer solutions, but reflections. Readers can choose, imagine, build an inner analysis of themselves.”
ALESSANDRA CARTA
LA NUOVA SARDEGNA, June 3rd 2004
"An engaging plot between adventures and feelings. A great story which takes a fantasy tale out of history [...]. Kerub, the new passionating Nick Mur’s novel."
CULTURAL PAGE
UNIONE SARDA, April 13th 2004
"Nick Mur reminds Minority Report and his fantastic detective story is already Zeitgeist.”
“Among the lines of his novel, so captivating and imaginative, I’ve found very clearly a great sensibility”
PINO CAREDDU
SASSARI SERA, November 1st 2002
" [...] The book underlines the passion for the fussy research in description of the events narrated by the author, gifted for sure by a concrete knowledge and a cultural “humus” that is going to lead him, I’m sure, to have a go at always more demanding and successful works in the literary field."
ARCANGELO RUIU
Critic Reviewer for Contendium
"Nick Mur’s debut, a writer eighteen years old"
[...] A talent due to his love for literature, given that Nick has devoured since his childhood an industrial quantity of novels… [...] This so precocious artist had already shown himself writing for the his High School Journal [...].
FRANCESCO GIORGIONI
L’UNIONE SARDA, January 21st 2002
"[...] This novel, engaging and adventurous, highlights his narrative skill, fluent and funny and moreover his passion for the ancient orient. As a nowadays author, he detects reality to give birth to his fantastic visions, for the pleasure of whoever, reading him, wants to live the same emotions. Nick Mur is destined to become a protagonist of the future Narrative [...]."
ANGELO ATZORI
Literary Reviewer for Contendium