ENCOUNTER WITH A MASTER STORYTELLER
This review is from: Verse in Arabic (Paperback)
It's
been a few years since I was as delighted with a book--I think it was SHADOW OF
THE WIND--that I couldn't put down. So masterful is Rasine's narrative that she
guides you through the dauntingly undramatic occasion of an interview as though
it were riveting drama because the mystery and intrigue are manufactured by
sheer brilliance of style and sensitivity as though you were reading the best
of Jorge Luis Borges. "A story should never end the conversation it
starts," as she herself puts it in the afterword. By not providing an
explanation for the metaphor that shapes the story she insinuates it deep into
our consciousness so that we walk away as haunted by the story as she was
haunted by the inciting incident that gave rise to it. I truly can't wait to
read more from this provocative author whose poetically authoritative voice is
worthy of the highest echelons of literature. Bravo!
No comments:
Post a Comment