About fifteen years ago, when I worked in SF-Bokhandeln, I would read Locus Magazine on my lunch break and dream about having a book reviewed in there. Locus was my first encounter with the English-speaking publishing industry, and it all seemed magical and far away. Write a book? Heh. In English? Surely, you jest!
How I would love to travel back in time and present this review by Gary K. Wolfe in the October issue to my twenty-year-old self:
Wolfe has some very kind things to say such as
Tidbeck has the discipline to follow such absurdist premises with a kind of fierce plot logic that almost makes them seem inevitable. (about ?Beatrice?)
and
[...] her?various oddities are grounded in an absolutely authentic sense of place, and a keen understanding?of how the heart works, even when it isn?t assisted by shift workers inside the body.
And he thinks this is the most important debut since Margo Lanagan ? so this is high praise indeed.
The review doesn?t seem to be available online, and Locus only publishes a small portion of their printed material on the website. But that?s a fantastic excuse for curious people to buy an actual paper magazine.
Source: http://karintidbeck.com/2012/10/12/jagannath-gets-some-love-from-locus-magazine/
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