![]() ![]() ![]() The parallel is much more easily made with some of the characters in this new collection of short stories. ![]() Hamlet is the lone insider, at the centre of things but exiled by his own anxieties. It seemed an odd comparison to make, since Lev’s isolation is explicitly geographic and cultural, driven by economic desperation, while Hamlet’s is composed of existential anguish about family, love and death. Curiously, in that novel, Tremain went to some lengths to establish a parallel between Lev and Hamlet, the prevaricating Prince of Denmark. Rose Tremain has always been drawn to outsiders in her fiction, perhaps most notably in The Road Home, her Orange prizewinning novel about Lev, an eastern European migrant worker struggling to adapt to life in England. ![]()
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