Barbara F. Ichiishi is the author of The Apple of Earthly Love: Female Development in Esther Tusquets' Fiction and cotranslator of ƒdouard Glissant's Monsieur Toussaint.

"Never to Return is much more than a polemic against pyschoanalysis; it is a stimulating 'open' or 'writerly' novel which contains the possibility of many and of even apparently contradictory, readings. . . . Tusquets deftly maintains her game of indeterminate meaning right up to the book's last line."—Times Literary Supplement "[Tusquets] subtly builds a touching, bawdy, and often very funny characterization of a woman who's had it with insensitive males and finds ways to free her impatient body and spirit."—Kirkus Reviews "Never to Return satisfies us on several levels: it is brilliantly written, witty, stimulating, and highly enjoyable to read. Tusquets scrutinizes accepted gender roles, but does so in a sensitive and intelligent way. An afterward by the excellent Catalan translator Barbara F. Ichiishi about Tusquet's literary career, an extensive glossary, and the list of works in the European women series further contribute to the high quality of this edition."—International Fiction Review

Barbara F. Ichiishi is the author of The Apple of Earthly Love: Female Development in Esther Tusquets' Fiction and cotranslator of ƒdouard Glissant's Monsieur Toussaint.

"Never to Return is much more than a polemic against pyschoanalysis; it is a stimulating 'open' or 'writerly' novel which contains the possibility of many and of even apparently contradictory, readings. . . . Tusquets deftly maintains her game of indeterminate meaning right up to the book's last line."—Times Literary Supplement "[Tusquets] subtly builds a touching, bawdy, and often very funny characterization of a woman who's had it with insensitive males and finds ways to free her impatient body and spirit."—Kirkus Reviews "Never to Return satisfies us on several levels: it is brilliantly written, witty, stimulating, and highly enjoyable to read. Tusquets scrutinizes accepted gender roles, but does so in a sensitive and intelligent way. An afterward by the excellent Catalan translator Barbara F. Ichiishi about Tusquet's literary career, an extensive glossary, and the list of works in the European women series further contribute to the high quality of this edition."—International Fiction Review

Barbara F. Ichiishi is the author of The Apple of Earthly Love: Female Development in Esther Tusquets' Fiction and cotranslator of ƒdouard Glissant's Monsieur Toussaint.

"Never to Return is much more than a polemic against pyschoanalysis; it is a stimulating 'open' or 'writerly' novel which contains the possibility of many and of even apparently contradictory, readings. . . . Tusquets deftly maintains her game of indeterminate meaning right up to the book's last line."—Times Literary Supplement "[Tusquets] subtly builds a touching, bawdy, and often very funny characterization of a woman who's had it with insensitive males and finds ways to free her impatient body and spirit."—Kirkus Reviews "Never to Return satisfies us on several levels: it is brilliantly written, witty, stimulating, and highly enjoyable to read. Tusquets scrutinizes accepted gender roles, but does so in a sensitive and intelligent way. An afterward by the excellent Catalan translator Barbara F. Ichiishi about Tusquet's literary career, an extensive glossary, and the list of works in the European women series further contribute to the high quality of this edition."—International Fiction Review