In this week’s Book Box, The Straits Times looks at books that use horror to tackle the atrocities of history.
SINGAPORE – Buy the books atBook review: Katherine Arden’s The Warm Hands Of Ghosts seeks redemption in storytelling
There is an author’s note about the battle of Passchendaele in Belgium during World War I in 1917, a detailed map of the cities of Poperinghe and Ypres vis-a-vis the Western front, and a box arrives in the town of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. This is not unique to her family. In the South Korean village of Dalbit, every family has a bathtub of bones.
The parents are religious Jewish zealots – Eric, an unerringly devout barrister, and Hannah, an exploitative journalist – whose traditions, mythicism and beliefs shape the formative years of their three children Gideon, Elsie and Tovyah, whom readers meet in their adolescent years.Hard By A Great Forest author Leo Vardiashvili does not want to just write about Georgia