Elizabeth Lowry writes:

It’s to Levi’s stories that we must go to find his non-rational or shadow side. His use of words is as precise as ever, his concerns largely unchanged, but the rules of engagement are different: the 17 pieces in A Tranquil Star are variously teasing, satirical, fantastical and occasionally macabre. In their deliberate avoidance of realism, their knowing engagement with the conventions of science fiction and allegory, they are reminiscent not so much of the Levi that English readers have come to know as of the playful and sometimes sinister fiction of Borges or Kafka.

(LRB 7 June 2007)

Penguin | hardback 164 pp. |ISBN: 9780713999556