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The Typist / A Novel / Cloth ISBN 978-0-8021-1950-6 / US $20.00 / 5x7.25 / 208 pp. / Aug. 2010

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“The narrator’s strong first-person voice . . . gives the novel a pensive tone that has more in common with an Alice Munro story than a typical war novel . . . with its spare, economical prose, this novel brings a different slant to the theme of war and relationships.”
       —Library Journal

“Knight cunningly details the confluence of the boredom of American soldiers and the economic plight of the post-bombing Japanese. Two cultures collide and gross exploitation occurs, but Knight is still able to craft heartfelt relationships amid the confusion.”
       —Booklist

“Knight paints a disquietingly dreamlike portrait of postwar Japan . . . not quite ironic, not quite darkly comic, The Typist is driven by earnest unaffected storytelling.”
       —Publisher’s Weekly

“Michael Knight tells the story of generals, war, and occupation through the eyes of a typist who proves himself to be the calm at the center of the storm. The result is this elegant, thoughtful, and resonant novel.”
       —Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto

“The Typist is Knight’s best book yet. It reads with a combination of urgency and a quiet, rush-less pace to the novel’s slow reveal. There is not a misstep, not a mislaid sentence. I believed and breathed every single word. This book awed me.”
       —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

“I loved The Typist. It is a beautiful portrait of a kind of walking pneumonia of the spirit that seeks and finds its own cure. It is also most impressive because of the setting—in a time far before Knight ever drew breath. It is true imagining at its finest.”
       —Richard Bausch, author of Peace