Review: Superb short story collection
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 28, 2011
To be honest I have kind of been putting off reading this one, because the title envoked images of cannibals having a nice old chew on a human leg or head. I couldn't have been more wrong. This is by far the best short story collection I have read in a long time and the title doesn't do it justice, because it in no way prepares you for the hauntingly factual stories within it. They are tales about racism, discrimination and the exploitation of minorities due to the unwanted colonisation of their countries. It spans from the ages of pre slavery to the haunted echoes of their lives today, which have been influenced over the generations.It shows how the impact of those negative influences still control the path of the descendants of those minoritiesin our day and age. I highly recommend this book, which is one I would also buy in paper variety to keep on a shelf. I received a free copy of this book for my review.