In Calabria

In Calabria is a cynical novel. Not the whimsical, timeless mythical tale of a lonesome unicorn that rightly cemented Beagle as one of the all-time greats, instead a cynical tale of a modern-day encounter of a unicorn by a farmer its ramifications. It was a surprising read for me, with the expected beautiful prose, but a story that unsettled me with its realism (yes, I'm choosing to use that word, as inappropriate as it may seem).