When The Sun Goes Down - Island Stories

Brilliant short stories from a unique & trenchant voice

By ruffusblossom on October 16, 2013


Format: Paperback


Strani-Pott's most recent collection further establishes her high position among 21st century authors and critics. Her previous book, The Cat of Portovecchio: Corfu Tales , stands as a singular example of short-story writing at its finest. This collection emphasizes the sundry metaphors of "the island": a physical, emotional, and/or a political territory isolated from the mainland by the vastness of the sea (itself a chimeric metaphor). One story in particular, "The Exploitation of Panorea," is as fine a parable as Kafka's "Hunger Artist" or Walser's "Battle Of Sempach." Strani-Pott, a Corfiot, cleverly situates her characters in narratives that require a strong sense of place, a temporal anchor. Like Flannery O'Conner's undeniable identification with the South, Strani-Pott's fiction is tied to the Ionian Islands and to the culture of freedom found there