Timeline

• Nov 09, 2025: started reading.
• Nov 15, 2025: finished reading.

Review

I read Solà’s previous novel earlier this year and was awed by it. I subsequently bought her latest novel almost in a fugue state, certain that it would be artful and sharp.

This one had a dark, earthy texture. A continuation, but somehow also a departure from the earlier themes and preoccupations of mountains.

She’s more controlled here. Her narrative forms and characters feel more sustained and focused than the phantasmagoria of the earlier work. Worth checking out, but definitely darker and less exuberant than the prose I fell in love with earlier this year.