A review by cjdavey
Storyteller by Amy Thomson

3.0

At heart, Storyteller is a gentle coming-of-age story, set against a richly imagined background of Mediterranean origin. The weakness, though, is the stories themselves. Not only do they give away too much too soon (ironically, something Florio warns the young Samad against early in his own career), but they also lack the cadence, rhythms and idioms of an oral tradition. They're little more than simplified reductions of Thomaon's prose style. Without credibility here, the structures around which the book is constructed begin to creak a little.