Richard Adams writes a memorable story of redemption through suffering, in his intensely moving Shardik. Readers who are acquainted with Watership Down will find Richard Adam’s second book quite unlike his first in theme and content. Yet equally arresting. The style of writing, the scale, the imagination that creates a whole new world with its own history, language, mythology and religion, and knits these together into a 500 page novel that rivets your attention and forces you to question and think, is truly amazing.
July 1976, volume 1, No 3