Review: A very good short story.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 16, 2014
In this short story Vardan Partamyan writes with a biting wit and a harsh view of the everyday world we live in. It is rather like gazing down the beam of a searchlight directed into someone's living room, where everything is brightly lit (including the things that most people politely look past) and dramatically emphasized by black contrasting shadows. Not yet having read anything else by him I don't know at this point whether this is Partamyan or the voice of the protagonist. If the latter, then this must get five stars. I found the opening couple of paragraphs a little laboured, but once past that it was quite gripping. The protagonist experiences a surreal odyssey, and the story has a good twist in the tail.Disclosure: I received a free review copy of this book in exchange for an objective, non-reciprocal review.