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A review by piccoline
The Whispering Muse by Sjón, Victoria Cribb
4.0
I love this book, in all its whimsicality and strangeness. Sjón is a fascinating writer, very fresh even when he's weaving with ancient myth. Reading a novel like this is a wonderful reminder of just how open and weird literature can be. It is also a reminder of how much better off we are when we keep expanding the ranks of those who write. This is a voice that would likely have remained hidden (to me, an English-speaker in the dominant imperialist nation) in most times before now. See, world-spanning imperialism has an upside. (Um, er... Maybe I should keep working on this review...)