Review: A Love Story with a Full Complement of the Senses
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 18, 2013
Told by Jebby, who is a keen listener to music and perceives sounds from an anthropological viewpoint, this is her love story with Dodi, an international photographer. She meets him aboard a flight to Paris, and from the beginning he ignites some memories in her, memories of their passionate love in another place, another time, in a realm that exists beyond death.Their adventure is thus a full complement of the senses--both visual (his) and musical (hers.) The flashbacks to another lifetime further enrich the story, as do the cultural overlays between a present day world and a world of the past.I can appreciate how Jebby has sprung from the mind of this author. Inspired by her earliest memory, the sound of mother's glorious voice singing a Brahms lullaby, Denise Kan's writing is highly sensual. "Dodi's words were music to my ears and a symphony in my heart." Her work is further enriched by her exposure to different nations, as she describes details from foreign settings and cultures.Five stars.