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Here is a little family

Amit Chaudhuri, 9 July 1992

After Silence 
by Jonathan Carroll.
Macdonald, 240 pp., £14.99, June 1992, 0 356 20342 5
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The Law of White Space 
by Giorgio Pressburger.
Granta, 172 pp., £12.99, March 1992, 0 14 014221 5
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Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree 
by Tariq Ali.
Chatto, 240 pp., £14.99, May 1992, 0 7011 3944 7
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... anything to be found in Salinger. One is constantly aware of reading the work of a gifted writer. Giorgio Pressburger’s The Law of White Spaces is a collection of fictionalised true stories about illness. In the fiction of the 19th century, death and disease were almost literary devices: they were part of a character’s development; death acted as the ...

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