The Lotus Eaters

Tatjana Soli is an American novelist and short-story writer born in Salzburg, Austria, who moved to the US as a child, graduated from Stanford University, and earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her debut novel, The Lotus Eaters (2010), a New York Times bestseller about a female photojournalist in Vietnam, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Subsequent works like The Forgetting Tree (2012), The Last Good Paradise (2015), and The Removes (2018) earned New York Times Notable Book status and other accolades, focusing on themes of war, cultural clashes, and individuals in history. Read more →