![]() ![]() Along the way, Saba is captured by a couple of improbably Dickensian characters, who sell her on to the local cage-fighting operation. From the outset we are solidly in quest mode, as 18-year-old Saba and her kid sister go in search of their brother, kidnapped and destined to be sacrificed to help rejuvenate the local warlord, who somewhat bizarrely models himself on Louis XIV. There are echoes of Willa Cather's novels of struggle as well as film classics such as The Searchers or True Grit.Īt its worst it is a risible collection of clichés strung together by a barely coherent plot. At its best the novel mashes together McCarthy's intensity with a laconic narrative style taken from the literature of the American west. Like Collins's novel, it comes with a blockbusting movie deal, but also with a – to me rather baffling – Costa Book award. Moira Young's Blood Red Road is more Hunger Games than Oryx and Crake. ![]()
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