[Of Nightingales that weep] could satisfy adolescents and adults alike with its exotic flavor and mature handling of character…. The unfamiliar pattern of events and the alien concepts of love, loyalty and ceremony which guide the characters are made clear in a story based on scholarship and on knowledge of the country whose contours and vegetation are skilfully used as background to a deliberate, convoluted narrative. (p. 3066)
Margery Fisher, in her Growing Point, March, 1977.
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