Crace back on track after the disappointing All that Follows? Here we are once again in an undated distant past, with a village threatened by the twin blows of the planned imposition of sheep farming and the arrival of strangers, unwisely punished by the villagers. What happens to the villagers when their timeless tradition with its hard-won equilibrium can't stand up against the double attack of change and revenge? Dark, brilliant and in Crace's gorgeous prose.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 69 Summer 2013 ) |
