![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jakov Lind has a style all of his own that makes Soul of Wood all the more haunting and surreal. With a biting wit=and wild prose that exemplifies the untamed and savage human heart, Lind’s vivid imaginative vision has the reader running like cockroaches into the dark recesses of humanity to survive in an untamed realm where the sunshine of morality can’t be counted on to light the way. These are unflinching stories bearing shadows of the holocaust and the only comfort therein is the dark humor that keeps you laughing through the onslaught of degradation, a laughter that sounds strangely like the creaking and cracking of a soul in a storm. Jakov Lind’s superb short story collection Soul of Wood examines morality through it’s ugly and sinister negation, delivering seven sadistic and deeply allegorical stories following those who trade morality to prolong their mortality. We are all endowed with a survival instinct whose gears whir up at the borderlines of life and death and bestow blinders on our rationality to keep the goal of survival-at-all-costs the only clear victory. To escape from hell he promised everything.’ ![]()
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