Colin McAdam is an internationally acclaimed novelist with a PhD from Cambridge on translations of Ancient Greek—the original language of Daphnis and Chloe. He has written non-fiction for Harpers, Granta, Salon, and Hazlitt, among other journals, and his novels have won or been shortlisted for several prizes including the Amazon Best First Novel Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize and the Giller Prize. He lives in Quebec.

Praise for Daphnis and Chloe“A clever and hardcore reimagination of a second-century Greek novel of the same name . . . The jacket copy describes the book as ‘part Ovid and part True Romance,’ citing two things that I enjoy, but neither the Metamorphoses nor the combo of Tony Scott + Tarantino prepared me for the soul-battering intensity of the novel! Was on the verge of eruptive tears throughout, even as the pages of high-speed dialogue turned themselves. Hard to think of other contemporary novels that aim for this register of Euripidean disorder and tragedy.”—Molly Young, The Life and Errors of Molly Young“McAdam’s book brings the deep, heartfelt and thoughtful humanity of a Pico Iyer story, with the atmosphere and foreboding of a Kem Nunn novel . . . Even the most violent scenes are dealt with care and a kind of beauty which serves to break the reader’s heart even deeper . . . McAdam’s novel is short, perfectly so, forgoing lengthy exposition in favour of clear and bright prose, giving the reader so much in a page or two. Is it at times a crime novel, a retelling of an ancient tale and in moments even has the feel of an epic, dreamy long form poem.”—Jeremy Thomas Gilmer, Seaboard Review of Books“A compulsively readable retelling of the eponymous Greek myth . . . McAdam blends kinetic pacing with thought-provoking questions from narrator Cupid: ‘How can you open your eyes to the world in search of beauty and not see its hazards and cruelty?’ This ambitious love story deserves to be McAdam’s US breakthrough.”—Publishers Weekly“McAdam’s voice really sings.”—Ariella Garmaise, The WalrusPraise for Colin McAdam“His voice is original and fiercely intelligent. It somehow possesses this combination of hard-won world weariness and exuberant, unshakeable faith in a better world. The essence of his prose, for me, is contradiction . . . my favourite thing . . . contradictions and layers and layers of meaning. He exposes all of our treacherous and base instincts but with the unspoken caveat that, in spite of our horrible human ways, we must always, relentlessly, struggle to love each other.”—Miriam Toews, author of A Complicated Kindness“I have long been convinced that Colin McAdam is a literary genius. What’s extraordinary is that each of the books he writes is a totally distinct type of genius. Every time. He’s in a league of his own.”—Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers"McAdam teases and turns around language, giving us a creative and wondrous portrait of nonhuman society from the inside out."—Dan Kois, Slate “Both disarmingly familiar and richly, movingly strange."—Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal