A review by mephistoreads
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn

4.0

A short narrative that pulls you in. The pattern of creating a grand character and that dragging them through mud to achieve desired effects has been executed creatively with the feeling of predictability creeping in intermittently. Aphra Behn however still makes the narrative shine and surprise. The themes are still understandable and thus compelling. The timelessness of the work with black and white merging into grey might surprise the reader. Although the narrator is a privileged voice, it is clear that it is Oroonoko whose story has primacy with long descriptive emotional discourse from his side and short unanimous voices of others.