Others have mentioned wanting to rank this on two scales and I agree. Atmosphere wise this was fascinating and held my attention throughout. But as a story I think it didn't quite work out, I was disappointed when it all ended. I'm a fan of ambiguous endings but this one didn't fit right. Still o...
Nachdem ich alle vier bislang übersetzten Romane von Burnside gelesen haben, blieben mir jetzt nur noch diese Autobiografie und ein zweisprachiger Band mit Gedichten. Interessant sind dabei die Motive, die in den Romanen wiederkehren. Anfangs wird ein Wald beschrieben, in dem Jugendliche Tiere qu...
In Persian myth, it is said that Akbar the Great once built a palace which he filled with newborn children, attended only by mutes, in order to learn whether language is innate or acquired. As the year passed and the children grew into their silent and difficult world, this palace became known as...
OR NOT FOLLOWED SO MUCH AS WATCHED. Someone was watching me, from among the trees, or in one of the ruined kilns. Still, it didn't bother me to begin with. I was scared that Morrison, or somebody, would come for me, but I didn't think this watcher was from the Innertown. Which wasn't that logical...
I’m not sure how aware of his alcohol problem he was by then, but I believe he was at least partly motivated by an impulse familiar to alcohol counsellors, the ‘geographical solution’, where a drinker leaves behind the bad memories and debts of a place where he has outlived his slender welcome, a...