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I finished this book over a week ago, and since then I've been debating with myself wether this collection deserved the 4-stars I gave it or 5-stars. Few collections stay on my mind as long and constantly as Howard's The Silver Voices, my first encounter with the author.I don't think I have too much to add that hasn't been already said by the other review. John Howard is definitely one of the best authors I've come across in regards to setting, great little period pieces of Europe from the inter...
A collection of very loosely related stories set in Eastern Europe, most in Romania. Timeframes and eras vary. It would be difficult to review thoroughly unless I broke it down to each individual story, but I’m lazy so that isn’t going to happen. My stars will stand as a review.
narratives intersect on the same small Romanian town, viewed from shifting temporal and cultural perspectives within the stories of this brilliant collection. This is less a work of fiction than a meditation on place, and our relationship with it. The instability of the seemingly solid is a frequent theme , as characters struggle with the encroachment of modernity , the shifting borders of nation under the shadow of war and political upheaval and their own identities as family secrets unfold. Th...
I loved every story, every page and every paragraph of this book. Howard's prose is simple, to the point, discarded of any artificiality. At times it reminds me of M. John Harrison and in my book this is a very good thing. Some reviewers are saying that there are no ghosts within these pages. Maybe there are! If you acknowledging the past as a ghost always returning, in order to haunt us. Howard's fictional city Steaua de Munte is indeed a very special place!
stories for that oft-disputed place, Transylvania. my Hungarian last name, my true one, hungers for its return to the fold; Romanians surely feel otherwise, especially those recalling Greater Romania. ask a Magyar or a Rumanian where Transylvania should belong and many may respond in the same vein: "With us."the stories are not remotely supernatural, despite their setting in that storied place. nor - despite my nonsensical comments above - are they obsessed with what country Transylvania should
Outside of Howard's collaboration with Mark Valentine on the various Connoisseur stories, I have never read John Howard before. I of course have enjoyed the Connoisseur stories and was eager to find out what Howard had to offer on his own. I was well rewarded for exploring this collection of short stories.All of the stories were captivating and fully engaging for me. Similar to Valentine's NIGHTFARERS, Howard has quite the knack for transporting the reader to a different time and place, and real...
This is copy 14 of 100 signed books, Containing and inlaid envelope with a card signed by Mr. Howard.
This book ends, for me, with my soul soaring into an Art Deco Heaven. I have sipped upon a Silver Voice, not from the Holy Grail, but from the Golden Bowl. The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.Above is one of its observations at the time of the review.
