Reviews for Sandpiper

The average rating for Sandpiper based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-02-18 00:00:00 Richard Del Pizzo With each ebb of green water the sand loses part of itself to the sea, with each flow another part is flung back to be reclaimed once again by the beach. That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it, caress it, collapse onto it, vanish into it. The white foam knows nothing better than those sands which wait for it, rise to it and suck it in. But what do the waves know of the massed, hot, still sands of the desert just twenty, no, ten feet beyond the scalloped edge? And what does the beach know of the depths, the cold, the currents just there, there - do you see it? - where the water turns a deeper blue. Through stark (with the exception of one story, from which I have quoted above) but piercing prose, we experience struggles through loneliness, love and loss in seven absorbing tales. Soueif's writing in this collection concerns place and displacement, and of the search and expression of identity within a culturally oppressive society.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-11-18 00:00:00 Ma Gr The stories in Sandpiper are so mesmerizing and so painful. Its not the author's style of writing as much as the pain and the feelings pulsating from every word that made me appreciate it so. Soueif tells stories beautifully and she tells stories from the heart; it's that which makes literature after all, isn't it?