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A review by erba
The Devils' Dance by Hamid Ismailov
5.0
I was in prison with him
There are novels that make all other novels fade. There are novels that transform the world while you’re reading them. Many writers in the USA try for the Great American Novel, few succeed.
This, however, is a truly great novel about our world, superbly translated.
The stories and poems from the past are masterfully interwoven into one beautiful carpet, on which the reader can walk, rest or sleep for many days.
It is dark, but the days of the writer in the Soviet prison, are full of thoughts about our very existance, and the power of narration.
Maybe it is because I am a writer myself, but I felt I was imprisoned by the novel.
There are novels that make all other novels fade. There are novels that transform the world while you’re reading them. Many writers in the USA try for the Great American Novel, few succeed.
This, however, is a truly great novel about our world, superbly translated.
The stories and poems from the past are masterfully interwoven into one beautiful carpet, on which the reader can walk, rest or sleep for many days.
It is dark, but the days of the writer in the Soviet prison, are full of thoughts about our very existance, and the power of narration.
Maybe it is because I am a writer myself, but I felt I was imprisoned by the novel.