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Title: Back to the short stories...perhaps?
Review: The brilliance and astonishing insight of Allegra's short stories were a welcome proof that talent is ageless and disregard the birthdate when it is bestowed. Her stories shimmer with ever eluding truth and compassionate portraits of complex humanity. This novel, alas, has none of the above. Written in a deliberately simplistic manner, it fails on all levels. As a parody about the generation of shallow seekers - it is too patronizing, as a morality tale - it is too colorless, as a serious fable about search for the Unseen - it is too simplistic and "New Agey", as a love story - it lacks passion and abandon. I read it dutifully looking for an opening into Allegra's sweeping ironic mind and found none.After two attempts of failed novels, maybe it is time to go back to intensity and condensed truthfullness of short stories?
