The narrative steers clear of flowery prose, but its simplicity only makes it more powerful.

FORBES: War Story

Richard challenges conventional financial thinking with humor, deep insight and a genius simplicity that only a master thinker can convey.

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Tobin doesn't have Silvia's quickness of mind, but he, too, has suffered a grievous loss, and Mr. Penn plays him with an affecting simplicity that only enhances the man's conflictedness: As much as he mistrusts her, he wants to protect her.

WSJ: Beyond Words

That, in all its simplicity, is the only general lesson that can be brought to bear on Asia's troubles.

ECONOMIST: Asia and the abyss

This novel, Emmanuel Darley's second, is the story of an exclusive love that turns into a nightmare, perhaps because the protagonists have no common language: the boy is enclosed in the simplicity of his own world, the little girl only laughs or cries, and the police speak only the language of the law.

ECONOMIST: Fiction from France

As only he could, Hemingway loved these French fighters for their courage, elan, and simplicity.

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