![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Levyand#8217 s dramatic storytelling works seamlessly with Peetersand#8217 s sinister art to create a profoundly disturbing and fantastical mystery.Īnd#147 Begins like a murder mystery, continues like an episode of The Twilight Zone, and finishes with a kind of existentialism that wouldnand#8217 t be out of place in a Von Trier film.and#8221 and#151 Publishers Weekly, starred reviewĪnd#147 Sandcastle is a fast 112-page read you won't be able to put down.and#8221 and#160 and#151 Īnd#147 Peeters and Land#233 vy convey some profound, if profoundly unsubtle, truths about the human condition. Soon everybody is growing olderand#151 every half hourand#151 and there doesnand#8217 t seem to be any way out of the cove. Then there is the odd fact that all the children are aging rapidly. And#160 Itand#8217 s a perfect beach day, or so thought the family, young couple, a few tourists, and a refugee who all end up in the same secluded, idyllic cove filled with rock pools and sandy shore, encircled by green, densely vegetated cliffs.įirst there is the dead body of a woman found floating in the crystal-clear water. ![]()
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