3.5 out of 5 stars
A copy of this was provided free of charge from the publisher in return for an honest review.
I am not going to go into too much detail in this review as revealing too much information about these two short stories in this slender volume will probably spoil it for others.
In the first short story, Jacobé is looking after a young lad called Minguet while his parents are at work. It is a common thing that happened and the girl would always be called his teta. She still cares deeply for him even though he is a young man now and the story explores the relationship they had.
In the second story, a girl called Fineta is waiting by the beach for her father and brothers to return from their fishing trip. As she looks out to see she can’t see their sail on the horizon, but she is not alone. A man that is known locally as the Woodsman is walking past. She returns home as she does not like the man before coming back to the beach. When she returns later he is still there…
The writing in both stories is sharp and sparse, it is quite amazing what he can convey in such few words. He manages to convey with tiny details in the prose just what the landscape is like and the emotional turmoil that the characters are suffering from. If you like your short stories short and espresso in intensity, give this a go.
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