Book Review of White Gods Black Demons by Daniel Mandishon
DANIEL MANDISHON’S - WHITE GODS BLACK DEMONS, is an
anthology of ten short stories published under the Weaver Press stable. Its
magic is that it feels startlingly familiar, whatever your politics may be.
Irony and humour have always been used to counter
frustration and despair, and to reveal double standards. Each portrait in the
110-page is a collection so politically acute and sensitive that a reader
cannot avoid recalling the clear influence. In this ten sharply Polished
stories, Mandishona explores the dark comedy that lies just beneath the surface
in the last decade. The stories have a trans-generational appeal. His
perceptions leave few untouched: politicians new farmers, exilies that renders
the currency worthless. Truth and morality are dispensable fact and power is
the only interested in its own survival.
The present can only be understood by turning backwards, to
an uneasy past, and imagining the chances of a future for the cast of
characters that are frustrated in their dreams. They have flaws, indeed, and
live by hope. But it is the tenderness with which the author deals with each
character.
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