Guilty
Anna Kavan, . . Peter Owen, $32.95 (189pp) ISBN 978-0-7206-1287-5
British author Kavan (1901–1968) plays with the confusion of reality and unreality in this understated posthumous novel set in a nebulous time and place. When Mark, the somewhat unstable and unreliable narrator, is young, his war-hero father treasonously converts to pacifism and is forced to abandon him. Further isolated by a gradual separation and distancing from his mother, Mark is fully cast adrift by his parents’ deaths, for which he blames himself, in an enemy bombing during his last year at boarding school. The similarities between Kavan’s work (
Reviewed on: 11/12/2007
Genre: Fiction
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