If this book had a Dramatis Personae, it would be one hell of a list....
Not only emotion but time as well is running amok in this book....
“What woman here is so enamoured of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face?”...
Tove Jansson is the queen of that winter feeling....
I am grateful to have read this book, and to have had my ideas rearranged by Kai Cheng Thom....
For a long time, Muriel Spark was a name in the back of my mind. I saw her books in used bookstores and thought, I should read those....
Do you ever read a book, and think to yourself, “I wish I’d written that”?...
The elements of magic are minor characters in this tale—the story is also a history and a beautifully rendered image of a certain time and place....