Nadja Spiegel story collection offers startling intensity in cut-glass detail
The vast majority of them are first person narratives and very short, with only a handful running to more than five pages, yet the muscular weight of the prose and the beguiling allusiveness of the storytelling sets them at a far remove from the trend of so-called ‘flash fiction’.
Where these stories are concerned, short doesn’t mean bite-sized; in fact, brevity is critical in keeping the fierceness on offer from overwhelming the reader.
