Shardik presents, in one way, a microcosm like the lapine universe of Watership Down. Bekla is a completely realized alternate world. Adams gives it language, culture, geography, and history. The novel offers therefore a total involvement and immersion in a world strange, wonderful, and terrible.
Shardik, like Watership Down, offers frequent natural description. Adams's prose is filled with long passages of scenic description, and the narrative often pauses for a paragraph-long metaphor or.....
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