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A review by zinful
On the Golden Porch by Tatyana Tolstaya
5.0
Tolstoya is the best least known Russian author today, and this first collection from her is perfect. I heard about her writing from the band Okkervil River, their name taken from a story in this volume. I trusted their judgement, finding them literary folk- to my great pleasure.
This is swirling, elegant, depair riddled reading..dreamlike and beautiful, haunting even. There is no real way to talk about this collection without simply spewing adjectives everywhere, but this is truly well thought out, evocative literature. The best review came from a friend I recommended this to: "Makes me love literacy, and fear its lack."
This is swirling, elegant, depair riddled reading..dreamlike and beautiful, haunting even. There is no real way to talk about this collection without simply spewing adjectives everywhere, but this is truly well thought out, evocative literature. The best review came from a friend I recommended this to: "Makes me love literacy, and fear its lack."