Comments on: The Wooden Tongue Speaks

By: admin

admin — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:44:47 +0000

Hi Matthew,

Yes, our books are distributed in Canada and should be available through Amazon.

The Honest Team

By: Matthew Firth

Matthew Firth — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:29:44 +0000

Are Honest Publishing books distributed in Canada?

By: David Rose

David Rose — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:57:47 +0000

I was very impressed with this book, right from the gorgeously atmospheric cover. Tiganov’s writing is deft, often with a brilliant turn of phrase, but deliberately unflashy, with a gritty integrity that stays true to his subject, so the effect of the stories becomes cumulative. They build up a convincingly depressing picture of a bleak Eastern Europe that we in the West struggle to grasp imaginatively, yet still allowing his characters flashes of humour and hope, especially in the strange delirium of democratic disillusionment.
The occasional stylistic flourishes, and the exceptions to the social realist approach – “Green” for example, with its almost magic-realist profusion of plants taking over a barren town – are there not for virtuosity, but to add further refracted planes to the picture.
But it’s the characters themselves who matter: redundant office clerks moonlighting as taxi drivers; a pastor moonlighting as a decorator; the old confronting their past or bewildered present. All trying to get by, better themselves, in a way we in the West should be humbled by.
I am certainly looking forward to whatever Tiganov has now up his sleeve.

By: Seb

Seb — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:05:29 +0000

The Wooden Tongue Speaks is an outstanding collection of short stories and poems which relate the experience of post-liberation Romania to wider human questions – what it it to be free? How does man transition from Marxian determinism to the alleged self determined realm of the post capitalist world? Is tyranny certainty? What do we do when all we yearn for is to be rid of those who tell us how to live our lives, yet find we long for someone to tell us how to appreciate freedom?

A grand set of stories – even if it’s truths are largely bitter ones.

By: Mya

Mya — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 03:44:53 +0000

I just read some stories from The Wooden Tongue Speaks and I find it worth reading. I will finish reading it as soon as possible.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:17:11 +0000

I would like to have a copy of this book. It seems so interesting. Perhaps the stories included on this book can be a source of moral lessons to all the readers.