Ozick’s No
John Lanchester, 4 February 1988
The Messiah of Stockholm
by Cynthia Ozick.
Deutsch, 144 pp., £9.95, November 1987,9780233981420 Show More
by Cynthia Ozick.
Deutsch, 144 pp., £9.95, November 1987,
The Birds of the Innocent Wood
by Deirdre Madden.
Faber, 147 pp., £9.95, January 1988,0 571 14880 8 Show More
by Deirdre Madden.
Faber, 147 pp., £9.95, January 1988,
“... that she can write movingly about buried grief: this novel proves her architectonic talents. Zdena Tomin is a Czech exile – a former spokesperson for the Charter 77 group – living in London, and The Coast of Bohemia is the second novel she has written in her adopted language of English. The story takes place during one winter in Bohemia, a cold ... ”