Claire's Reviews > The Colony

The Colony is an absolute banger; the kind of book that really gets me going. Magee has crafted and exquisitely lyrical novel about the languages of colonisers and colonisation. It’s cleverly constructed as a novel that is literally about the impact of colonisation on language, but the Magee’s exploration runs much deeper than just this one facet. It’s at once a very small, personal narrative, and simultaneously a far-reaching political critique. It’s hard to imagine anything other than prize-winning success for this excellent book.