PositiveThe GuardianThis isn't exactly science fiction (it's not exactly not science fiction either). Link is the literary descendant of Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka, those supremely matter-of-fact creators of alternative realities … This strangeness emanates not only from the subjects of the stories, but from the sentences. The first time I read Magic for Beginners I marvelled at the seamless integration of reality (a world that seemed familiar, characters I felt I knew) and otherness (a dream-world with rules I wasn't acquainted with but which I accepted as they came along). With each subsequent reading I became more enamoured of the language, the voice, the glorious sentences themselves … Link's stories intertwine to form a world more real than anything you could touch, taste or see; this world exists in the intimate spaces of your mind, real enough to visit, strange and familiar as a dream.
