The characters in David Constantine's fifth collection are all in
pursuit of sanctuary; the violence and mendacity of the outside
world presses in from all sides - be it the ritualised brutality
suffered by children at a Catholic orphanage, or the harrowing
videos shared among refugees of an atrocity 'back home'. In each
case, the characters withdraw into themselves, sometimes abandoning
language altogether, until something breaks and they can retreat no
further. In Constantine's luminous prose, these stories capture
such moments in all their clarity; moments when an entire life
seems to hang in the balance, the past's betrayals exposed, its
ghosts dragged out into the daylight; moments in which the
possibility of defiance and redemption is everything.
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