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There was Russian Futurist in Revolutionary times called Khlebnikov who used to go about the countryside scattering among the peasantry words blindly chosen from his bag that somehow could be construed to become poetry. I probably would have made mor ...more
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A book of two halves, obviously, and a reaction in two parts – loved the first, got along with the second. As a left-ish liberal, depressed with the state of the world and less confident in his own prejudices, I happily submerged myself in the drinkin ...more
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Colin Davison rated a book it was ok Western Lane by Chetna Maroo	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Very occasionally, among novels short-listed for the Booker Prize I wonder not only why the judges thought so highly of one, but how it got published in the first place. Such for much of the time was my thinking as I trudged through Chetna Maroo’s dul ...more
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Although quite a short book, it is remarkable how Bernstein maintains creative invention in a story with very few incidents. A young woman, Jewish but unnamed, moves to a northern country to act as housekeeper, carer and willing slave to her recently ...more
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Finishing Samantha Harvey’s awe-inspiring novel felt like one emerging from an intense residential course of spiritual awakening. While populated by real people, going about everyday tasks in a far from everyday environment, it forces the reader to p ...more
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A rewarding, fast-moving adventure story that turns the story of Huckleberry Finn on its head. For James is Huck’s preternaturally smart and cultured friend Jim, liable to quote Voltaire, dreaming of conversations with Kierkegaard. He and his fellow s ...more
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A terrific book that got its claws into me at the beginning and would not let go. Cummins sustains the tension not so much by the atrocities themselves but by the uncertainties that Lydia, driven by fear and guilt, and Luca face at every stage in thei ...more
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There was Russian Futurist in Revolutionary times called Khlebnikov who used to go about the countryside scattering among the peasantry words blindly chosen from his bag that somehow could be construed to become poetry. I probably would have made mor There was Russian Futurist in Revolutionary times called Khlebnikov who used to go about the countryside scattering among the peasantry words blindly chosen from his bag that somehow could be construed to become poetry. I probably would have made more of his ramblings than I did of Anne Michaels’ disordered equivalent.

Chapters in the book are disarranged in a non-chronological order from 1917 backwards and forwards from 1910 to a then future 2025 before plunging back to a 1908 starting point near the end. I might cope with that, except that the chapters themselves are also split into a non-chronological sequence, with short unconnected paragraphs often of obscure philosophical or poetical reflection that make the whole thing totally disorientating.

I turned to the Guardian review to help, which explains the dynastic connection of the primary characters through several generations. Even so, trying to navigate the narrative was like trudging through treacle.

To pick some phrases at random: ‘Truth, where regret begins, is a slightly paler shade of dark than defeat.’ ‘Until the night we met, I had never imagined that – on either side of the boundary between breath and death – our longing, alas, alas, might be the same.’ Or: ‘No escape from the pain of faith even in this darkness, even when belief is completely disassembled; if the parts could be fitted back together, would it be a lantern or a gun?’

Eh? I am just not up to this, but I cannot think it is just me. Does anyone understand what the writer means when she writes that ‘perhaps death was Lagrangian’?

One of the leading characters says that his mother asked unanswerable questions, kept in a diary beside her bed, such as ‘How can two bodies make a soul?’ Unanswerable I would venture because she is nuts.

Occasionally the mist clears, such as when a elderly border guard steals baby clothes for her own granddaughter. How I wished there were more clearly defined and characterful episodes such as this.

But elsewhere I was unimpressed by what is described, both in the use of language and in what I take to be the concept of the book. An example of the former: ‘He held her. She was long, like a pine marten, a single pure muscle.’ A pine marten? In Suffolk in 1984? An unlikely comparison.

I imagine that Michaels, a poet, is working around an idea that, put crudely, the dead are always with us in spirit. In one episode a photographer finds that images of recently deceased relatives of his subjects are turning up on the photographic plates of their studio portraits.

I am afraid that did it for me. I am always suspicious of writers who turn to the supernatural as a cop-out to explain events or philosophies surely knowing it is all a lot of bunkum. I read diligently on to the end, but always thereafter with the feeling that putting together all the fragments of this puzzle was not worth the trouble. ...more

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Mayflies
by Andrew O'Hagan

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A book of two halves, obviously, and a reaction in two parts – loved the first, got along with the second.

As a left-ish liberal, depressed with the state of the world and less confident in his own prejudices, I happily submerged myself in the drinkin ...more

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Western Lane
by Chetna Maroo

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Very occasionally, among novels short-listed for the Booker Prize I wonder not only why the judges thought so highly of one, but how it got published in the first place.

Such for much of the time was my thinking as I trudged through Chetna Maroo’s dul ...more

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Study for Obedience
by Sarah Bernstein

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Although quite a short book, it is remarkable how Bernstein maintains creative invention in a story with very few incidents.
A young woman, Jewish but unnamed, moves to a northern country to act as housekeeper, carer and willing slave to her recently Although quite a short book, it is remarkable how Bernstein maintains creative invention in a story with very few incidents.
A young woman, Jewish but unnamed, moves to a northern country to act as housekeeper, carer and willing slave to her recently widowed brother. The country, also unidentified, is the land of her forebears, and although not stated explicitly, it is clear that they died either in the Holocaust or some earlier pogorm.
The locals are still archly conservative and suspicious of strangers. After the woman's arrival, a series of strange events occur, bovine hysteria, a bitch's phantom pregnancy - blamed impossibly on the incomer's own castrated dog, potato blight, and the disturbing death of a sheep caught in barbed-wire and her new-born lamb (a case taken from a story told to Bernstein).
Those happenings, highlighted in the blurb, are in fact related only in passing and make the book sound more dramatic than it really is. Furthermore, the whole thing is narrated in Kafkaesque style, leaving open the question of what is real, and what is a projection of the woman's tortured imagination.
At the book's heart is the idea of the survivor as victim, one who blames herself for the misfortunes of others. 'Whatever there was in me that I knew was part of the problem but could not name, nor pin down precisely.'
Local people have 'a single, unbroken line into the past .. that held tham fast to .. one place, entitled them to live and go on living. What blood feeds a soil like that?' Furthermore, she senses social structures 'that in certain cases required the presence, or more appropriately the exclusion, of a particular individual .. to enable the cohesion of the whole.'
The woman voluntarily, almost happily, subordinates herself to that rejection and perceived humiliation by the community as she does to the increasingly degrading tasks of looking after her brother, going so far as to blame herself for crimes of which she knows she is innocent.
Does she find peace in obediance, in self-recrimination, or is one to read a deeper historical parralel into this parable of acquiescence. One remains unsure at the end of this enigmatic novel. ...more

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Orbital
by Samantha Harvey

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Finishing Samantha Harvey’s awe-inspiring novel felt like one emerging from an intense residential course of spiritual awakening. While populated by real people, going about everyday tasks in a far from everyday environment, it forces the reader to p Finishing Samantha Harvey’s awe-inspiring novel felt like one emerging from an intense residential course of spiritual awakening. While populated by real people, going about everyday tasks in a far from everyday environment, it forces the reader to ponder the most profound questions of existence: who we are, and how we are to live on our only inhabitable planet.

Four male and two female astronauts, two Russians, one American, a Brit, Italian and a Japanese, orbit the earth 16 times a day, performing experiments determined by ground control, including checks on mice whose muscles are wasting in zero gravity. Household chores include cleaning air vents of lost tools or nail clippings while dealing with bodily disorientation and irritants such as unscratchable itches that go on for hours.

Harvey vividly recreates the mundane pre-occupations of these space travellers beyond the common perception of their radio communications and floating around the cramped compartments. But meanwhile, all are fascinated by the view from the window, where a new dawn arrives every 90 minutes and a whole continent may pass in 15.

Like Pietro, the most intellectual member of the crew, we are able to survey mankind from a distance. Only if one can get far enough away from the earth can one finally understand it, he muses. Looking out, he and the others feel like children, and understand why our planet is called Mother Earth, and which ‘given the poor choice of alternatives’ is so unmistakably home.

The earth, Harvey writes, feels ‘not small, but almost endlessly connected, an epic poem of flowing verses’ but whereas from the space station it appears nationless, borderless, in the station itself there are separate Russian and Western toilets with Keep Out signs.

Chie, from Japan, learns during the flight that her mother has died, prompting the reader to wonder about the fragile health also of our maternal earth. From their observation porthole, the astronauts record the progress of a super-typhoon heading for islands in the Pacific, ‘little scraps of land that .. could just wash away’ and observe the 1,000-mile trail of orange dots that betray fires in the Amazon rain forest.

While the space station continues its orbit, another rocket has blasted off – using as much fuel as a million cars – carrying another crew to the moon. You must never forget, Chie’s mother had told her, the price humanity pays for its moments of glory, because humanity doesn’t know where to stop.

Shaun, the American aboard the space station, wonders whether man’s lust for space (which might as well apply on earth as in the cosmos) is curiosity or ingratitude, and whether it makes him a hero or an idiot. An amateur radio caller, referring to fake stars being put into space in the shape of company logos, asks him how ventures such as the moon shot is writing the future of humanity.

The question is beyond Shaun, a Christian who carries a crucifix that floats around his neck, and he refers it to Pietro. ‘With the gilded pens of billionaires,’ he replies.

While the crew members exercise, they may dream of joining the moon-walkers, but what they wish for is a cold, stiff wind, blustery rain, autumn leaves, muddy legs, a puddle in a pothole, a startled rabbit. It is as if they are writing a love poem for the earth, that in their fragile, sealed capsule, 250-miles in the sky, might be titled In memoriam. ...more

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James
by Percival Everett

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A rewarding, fast-moving adventure story that turns the story of Huckleberry Finn on its head.

For James is Huck’s preternaturally smart and cultured friend Jim, liable to quote Voltaire, dreaming of conversations with Kierkegaard. He and his fellow s A rewarding, fast-moving adventure story that turns the story of Huckleberry Finn on its head.

For James is Huck’s preternaturally smart and cultured friend Jim, liable to quote Voltaire, dreaming of conversations with Kierkegaard. He and his fellow slaves are highly educated, thanks to James covertly studying books in Judge Thatcher’s library and passing on his knowledge. To maintain the secret, they speak in black patois only when their white masters – including Huck – are present, but privately comment on his acting the fool as ‘an example of proleptic irony or dramatic irony.’

The conceit stretches credibility, but if one is prepared to go along with it, the narrative rushes along like a fast moving channel of the Mississippi, occasionally at the cost of cursory description. ‘We fashioned a modest raft,’ James recalls, without further explanation. But the wreck of a steamboat and the struggle of survivors is recounted in vivid and exciting detail.

Motivated by love of family as well as hatred of slavery, there seems little doubt that James will find either redemption or revenge in return for the savagery of the slave owners and slave exploiters – just as in
Everett’s earlier novel The trees.

And gratifyingly for today’s readers, he shares modern appreciation of man’s dependence on nature: ‘Nature don’ hardly talk to no human peoples anymo. Maybe it try from time to time, but peoples don’ listen,’ he tells Huck in his assumed uneducated voice.

Slowly, James starts to give away little hints that he is not as simple as Huck as assumed, such as in a canny remark after treating himself with a mud pack to treat a rattlesnake bite. ‘Do you think it will work?’ Huck asks, to which James replies, ‘At least one of gone know in da moanin’.’

The narrative weaves its way through Mark Twain’s established chronology, allowing itself enough liberty to invent episodes without diverting from the main stream of events. And Everett manages to twist the tail in almost operatic fashion in a way that adds an extra dimension to a classic story. ...more

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American Dirt
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A terrific book that got its claws into me at the beginning and would not let go.

Cummins sustains the tension not so much by the atrocities themselves but by the uncertainties that Lydia, driven by fear and guilt, and Luca face at every stage in thei A terrific book that got its claws into me at the beginning and would not let go.

Cummins sustains the tension not so much by the atrocities themselves but by the uncertainties that Lydia, driven by fear and guilt, and Luca face at every stage in their journey, so that one fears to see what lies around the corner.

Whom can they trust? Javier? Lorenzo? The extortion jefe or the corrupt border guard? The Coyote or the two silent migrants? And after 50 days and 2,600 miles will mother and son die because of a blister?

When violence occurs, it is sudden and quick, the man falling from the train, the off-stage rape of the sisters, the migrant ‘shot between the eyebrows’ for lying about his past.

Yet, as Lydia concludes: ‘For every wickedness, there is an equal and opposite possibility of
redemption.’ While the migrant are brave and determined, those they encounter are often no less heroic, many motivated by Christian charity, plus the doctor who buys food and leaves so avoid thanks, the guardian with a machete, the hut owner in Hermosillo, all at risk to themselves. The kindness of strangers and the solidarity of fugitives offers a sort of hope in this bleak landscape.

This is almost a great book - a John Steinbeck for the age of King Trump the First - and Cummins delivers her heart-thumping message while stopping just short of sententiousness, as the main narrative is briefly interrupted by the traumas related by Soledad and Marisol.

But while American Dirt has the edginess of a thriller, it could only have been written by a woman with children of her own, for the intimate and perceptive detail of Lydia’s relationship with Luca. And as a mother Cummins might be forgiven if he and Beto seem a little precocious, even in this forcing environment.

I was initially sceptical about Javier too, as if someone said Pablo Escobar liked embroidering doilies. But in Cummins’ Mexico violent crime is so prevalent that it sucks in nonentities of no particular talent, such as the comandante, who might otherwise have been just boring joes trying to earn a poor but fairly honest living.

Technically, the novel is highly accomplished, in its structure and in language – the absence of adjectives helping to drive the action along at great pace. Compare this with a rare moment of stasis when the sisters contact Angela, the nurse caring for their dying father: ‘in the ICU unit in a six-story green-and-blue building, a nurse wearing clean white scrubs and a blue stethoscope darts into the nurses’ station and tosses a chart onto the cluttered desk.’

The contrast serves to highlight the severe, drab, tortuous existence on the migrant trail, until finally it bursts into colour in the promised land. Imagining the desert left behind, Lydia sees ‘The colors streaking flamboyantly across the sky. .. Dazzling. Purple, yellow, orange, pink, and blue. She can see those perfect colors, hot and bright, a feathered headdress. Beneath, the landscape stretches out its arms.’

I saw those divers off La Quebrada in 1968 when Acapulco was still about tourism not terrorism. I don’t know whether Cummins gives a balanced picture of Mexico today, but as a tale of corrosive corruption and cruelty versus hope and bravery, it is a convincing argument for the latter. And sometimes hope wins. ...more

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When the Dust Settles
by Lucy Easthope

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I’m a regular watcher of Silent Witness, but this book takes the narrative far beyond the laboratory and the process of forensic investigation. I don’t think I’m morbid, but there is a fascination in the small, unthought-of details that go into how t I’m a regular watcher of Silent Witness, but this book takes the narrative far beyond the laboratory and the process of forensic investigation. I don’t think I’m morbid, but there is a fascination in the small, unthought-of details that go into how to handle a disaster and its long aftermath, and at the same time a deep and constant concern for the well-being of the survivors and bereaved.

Those details are often brutal, often surprising: rain that makes a soup of mud and fuel and blood; the violent stench of shit and smells that put the author ‘off mushrooms for life’; booking motels for responders far from the grieving; hiring a hawk to stop pigeons making off with bits of dead people. The cool observation that ‘the top-heavy head on the frame of a bi-ped is ripe for decapitation.’

Inevitably, there is conflict with political or financial interests: the Chinese denying the existence of those who chose, fatally, to flee; the British government seeking ‘friendly coroners’ for those killed in Iraq, sent to war without the necessary boots. There are the responders made to pay for giving survivors tea and biscuits. And what can be more scandalous that insurance companies insisting that treasured, salvaged possession go into a skip, or cutting up furniture under threat of fraud?

In all of this, Easthope is driven to restore dignity to the dead and ensure respect for those left behind. As a former journalist, I was struck by the distress caused by assurances discovered to be false, leading to the distrust of all official statements as a result.

If I have a criticism of the book it is that it falls between two stools, a hard-hitting factual account of a necessary but forgotten area of scientific and social policy, and a misery memoir.

I would have liked on the one hand a summary of procedures in one of those disaster planning documents, and at least the gist of that message that comforted passengers and crew after an air disaster.

Easthope was unluckily close to several major incidents in private life, Alton Towers in particular, and it’s understandable that this and her professional experiences should affect her home life and be included in the book. Her reaction to handling a toothbrush or pen of a brand recovered from wreckage touched a nerve.

But I did not feel this was the place to talk about her miscarriages or husband’s illness, tragic though they were.

As an editor, I had to direct coverage of disasters a few times, including Hillsborough. I’m not sure we always got it right. There is a convention that UK media do not publish pictures of dead bodies despite what is sometimes depicted on TV (war is slightly different), and we had to decide whether to print what became a well-known image of people crushed against a barrier. Probably the girl at the front was already dead but clearly there was an urgent case demanding an enquiry. Thus most of the nationals published it, we used a different picture. Probably wrongly.

Closer to home there was the Lyme Bay canoeing disaster in which four teenagers from Plymouth died. At the Western Morning News we formed a relationship with the parents to act as their voice to other media. Later they spoke at an editors’ conference about how, before they were fully aware of what had happened, they turned into their street to see an unexpected barrage of newspaper photographers and TV cameramen outside their home.

I hope that through the efforts of people like Lucy Easthope that relatives are better prepared to face the aftermath of disasters now. ...more

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