PositiveShelf AwarenessNature\'s brutality, the immensity of time, dreams: these are Herzog\'s eternal fascinations, and he locates them all in Onoda\'s story ... This blurring of documentary and fictional storytelling will be familiar to fans of the author\'s films, as will the mesmerizing, otherworldly tone with which he achieves his effect.
Irene Solà
RaveShelf AwarenessCatalan author and artist Irene Solà concocts a heady mixture of folklore, poetry and humor in her European Union Prize-winning novel, When I Sing, Mountains Dance. In a vibrant evocation of the Pyrenees, the mountainous borderland between Spain and France, Solà achieves a panoramic sense of place by leaping between perspectives with a verve that lends an animating energy to every facet of the land and its creatures.
Douglas Stuart
RaveShelf Awareness... a gay bildungsroman suffused with drama and gorgeously realized emotion ... Stuart\'s depiction of a powerful, enveloping first love is rendered with stunning emotional clarity. No less poignant is the protagonist\'s relationship with his mercurial, alcoholic mother ... With the author\'s profound capacity for feeling and a canny sensitivity to the nuances of class and sexuality, Young Mungo confirms Douglas Stuart as an artist of rare talent.
