She is the master of the casual, searing image; in a department store in Foreign Bodies, a woman is ambushed by floating tongues of perfume. During an awkward conversation between two people a stillness blundered between them. In Heir to the Glimmering World, Professor Mitwisser, a Jewish exile from Nazi Germany, has eyes acutely blue . . . I was shocked by their waver of bewilderment – like heat vibrating across a field.
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