The Dance of a Sham Flanders In a novel that mixes

In a novel that mixes history and fiction

the novel contains lovely melodrama and nostalgia for those times when radio was the only information medium for Estonian rural people

of literary references both real and invented

and native and national language(s)

in a string of declarative sentences

The Dance of a Sham Flanders In a novel that mixesThe narrator of this novel begins by introducing himself not as a speaker but a listener, spellbound by his friend Caracala's yarns, which blend accounts of youthful mischief with casual references to Cervantes and Laurence Sterne. At first, the spotlight is entirely on Caracala, but the narrator soon begins to distrust his friend, concluding that he is no more than a sham, a performer. Yet the reader in turn comes to doubt the narrator's own