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A review by holyshark
Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
4.0
What a book! It’s like a fiction that doesn’t read like a fiction — it feels as if all the stories are true. The longest stories were the “best”, in my opinion, because they gave me a chance to know the characters better. The stories were written so powerfully — especially The Stilt Fishermen of Kathaluwa. The language, the tone, the seamless transition between what Asanka was seeing and what was happening, it was all just so well done. I also liked The Sukiyaki Book Club, because this was the first one where I saw symbolism. I'm not much of a person who reads and notices things like that, but this one made me happy / hopeful.
Whilst reading the first short story I’d already decided that I’d read a short story a day instead of all in one go, or as I felt. This was a highly uncomfortable read, not because of the content but because the stories were very moving, and allowed me to compare my own life experience to these characters.
Whilst reading the first short story I’d already decided that I’d read a short story a day instead of all in one go, or as I felt. This was a highly uncomfortable read, not because of the content but because the stories were very moving, and allowed me to compare my own life experience to these characters.