The English Patient
(Michael Oonjantje)
A postwar novel of unsurpassedcraftsmanship. A tale of love remembered that drips with corporeal sensuous texture, the smoothness of a cheek and gristle of a bloody wound were never so vividly portrayed. In this book, language sings, moves and breathes with restless verdant energy. The primal and elemental forces of nature are evocatively portrayed. The desert, a landcape of harsh volatility is imbued with a monstrous life of a demi-god, the rustling of water and sand alike to the whisper of a tafetta dress. Here in this novel the cross-roads of the mystical, traditional and modern convergewith cataclysmic consequences for the characters.The reader feels a gravitational pull into thumping, rhythmic proseand an orgiastic rush of blood to the extremities, so taken are we by the sensuous poetry of Oonjantje.
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