A different way of crying
Mia Couto's book is about a man who nearly destroys his family through his fury, both manifest and inarticulate; and...
Half-strangled tones
For most of Banffy's Transylvanian Trilogy, Julie Ladossa is a vanished ghost of a woman, who left her husband and...
Heart-breaking hostilities
Homer's Iliad pulsates with war and violence, sometimes wrapped in glory but often shrouded as much in sorrow. Here, hostility and quarrel...
Stories as therapy
The story as a means to bear sorrow is an idea I'd like to believe, but can't quite relate to...
Silence or story?
Ivan is the protagonist of Grossman's novel Everything Flows, apparently modelled on his brother in law. This is an account...
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