Muhammad Wage Wage itibaren Moletji, South Africa
This could be the north star among collections of short narrative. It realigned my biases and sympathies toward authors I already thought I knew. Absolutely dazzling introduction by Randall Jarrell frames a focused selection with appreciable peripheral vision and a mind toward the pivots between stories. I read it end to end; all thirty stories were worth the effort. Now I'm going to have to finally sit down and read A Sportsman's Notebook and Old World Landowners, both of which seem to line the mantle of this anthology.
Maybe this isn't how others use this site, but I partly want to use it to record books I *don't* want to read and why not, so I can remember next time it comes up. For this one: long long, many bad reviews, england, period, church. Only epic novel by this author, sounds like the length was too much. On the other hand, thousands gave it 5 stars; but for me, we'll (probably not) see..