Review by Oliver Redfern
The first edition of Captains of the Sands, published in 1937, was seized by the Brazilian government and burnt in public. Jorge Amado’s novel, depicting the story of street children in Brazil who rape, steal and kill (much like their future counterparts in Paulo Lins’ 1997 novel City of God) was an [...]
Review by Jen Glyn
Kelly Link has been getting rave reviews for years. The fact that she isn’t better known is probably the result of the British publishing industry’s squeamishness regarding short stories and science fiction (however literary or, in Link’s case, intelligent it is). Last year’s Nebula Awards (for science fiction [...]