Reviews-Volcano Archives – Elleke Boehmer

Kwame Dawes

Erica — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 13:07:01 +0000

Arresting, intriguing, and brilliantly crafted, these stories explore the psychic wounds of our rapidly contracting contemporary world, with its complications of race, migration and trauma. Each unfolds with impeccable pacing, and gradually unveils a deeply humane sense of the world.

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Gail Jones

Erica — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 13:06:05 +0000

Compassionate, intelligent and evocative: this is a morally serious writing, lucidly rendered.

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J. M. Coetzee

Erica — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 13:05:09 +0000

These assured, accomplished stories are reports from a world in which unacknowledged dark energies undermine and render hollow our bright, rational self-understanding. With passion and intelligence, and rare moral insight, Elleke Boehmer traces the scars left on the psyche by the tortuous histories of the South.

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