Etna
By the close of Part 1 of Paul Yoon’s wonderful new novel, Etna, I was weeping freely. I’m not sure anyone needs to hear about the puddle I was in by novel’s end ... Devastating and gorgeous.
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This one is special. Paul Yoon's slim, devastating novel, Etna, is in a category of its own — a category that contains adjectives like 'profound,' and 'uncanny' ... The power of Etna rests in the authenticity of its canine narrator's voice — a dog conscripted into an unnamed war in an unnamed country. From the novel's very first page, Etna's voice is somber and poetic in its simplicity ... Extraordinary.
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For all its compactness, Etna has the shape of an epic ... Stands out among Yoon’s work ... This is, at times, a wrenching novel, strewn with broken bodies, but its atrocities never overwhelm its faith in creaturely communion, and in grief and longing that clarify, rather than obscure, one’s desires and selfhood.
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