The Horse-Headed Forest

A brilliant, deeply researched novel told in compelling mini-chapters, about the key figures of the Surrealist and Negritude movements, by Terese Svoboda (“one of our best writers” —Karen Russell).

In 1941, as war closes in on Europe, the surrealist André Breton, his wife, theartist Jacqueline Lamba, the painter Wifredo Lam and his companion, chemistHelena Holzer, flee Marseille on one of the last boats out of wartime France.Arriving in Martinique, Breton discovers the magazine Tropiques and...