A review by savaging
The Doll's Alphabet by Camilla Grudova

4.0

This was a book about odd little knick-knacks, breathing life into inanimate objects. It was also one of the more brutal books I've read recently. It has the sort of casual violence of old undisneyfied fairy tales, or the kind children enact with their toys when they think no one's watching.

Follow-up question: is Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" just about his anxiety over sewing machines? This book led me to believe I should be more fascinated by and worried about sewing machines.