"Leaving Xaia's voice escapes the world of personal identity and replaces it with something eerie and compelling--an invented, believable world which perhaps has been written by what Breton called "the shadow mouth"--that other, that non-I, that most fascinating stranger each of us is. Once we hear it, Breton says. we can hear no other. A frightening idea: I am still trying to hear D. Nurkse's unique music fully, understand his world, because I am fascinated by it."
--Stephen Berg
