‘The sense of place is fabulous, interweaving vistas of landscape and seascape, local fauna and flora, architecture, politics, inhabitants, history… all of which creates an atmosphere of longing and despair – despair at the impossibility of ever achieving what is longed for… The stories play nicely with the disjunction between place as redemptive and place as punitive/purgatorial. The sense of foreboding that pervades all of the stories is impelled by this tension… the work is “postcolonial” in the very best sense of that critical label.’
Lois Parkinson Zamora
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