![]() ![]() ![]() “He felt that way too,” says Tina, “I heard the catch in his throat.” Close Enough for Horseshoes They look face-on at the pathologies that make up civilisation and its counterpoint, and their vision is impossible to resist. ![]() The 43 stories constitute an intense, varied and always engaging volume celebrating the humanity in cruelty, the beauty beneath ugliness and, most astonishingly, the shape – the meaning – in the amorphous grind of invisible and ostensibly wasted lives.īerlin’s stories have a power and rhythm of their own, a companionable force that takes the reader jovially by the hand and tightens to a painful grip. In this phrase, the narrator unwittingly articulates the experience of reading A Manual for Cleaning Women. But then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot.” “The world just goes along,” says Tina, a rehabbing heroin addict, “Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. There is a moment in Berlin’s story, “Strays”: ![]()
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