The boys had made kokoretsi out of the intestines and offal of the goat they had taken from the resentful nomarch of the village, and were watching it sizzle in the cinders of the fire.

In considering how the preceding analysis relates to the rest of the world, one can think of the post-Soviet countries as providing something like a pristine context in which to study the fundamental characteristics of patronal politics.

I don't think another child is in the cards for them.

This sense of the neo-Victorian genre, which emerged in tandem with its recognition and naming in the mid-1990s, can be understood in light of a general British literary resistance to postmodernist thought even more prevalent today than it was in the late twentieth century.