"[...] What is perceivable since the beginning, and little by little gets clearer while the tale proceeds and the confidence in his own narrative skill strengthens itself, is a youthful playful invention, in which the dramas of History, and the individual ones as well, get diluted among the colours of a tapestry [...].
But the highest and most qualifying distinctive sign of the whole work is a background seriousness, a statement of some fundamental values which classify man as Man and which express themselves as reliance upon the great potentialities of this small being [...].”

Giuseppe Serpillo                  
Lecturer in English Language and Literature
Sassari University