In ‘Etna,’ a canine narrator delivers a poignant anti-war message

This one is special. Paul Yoon‘s slim, devastating novel, Etna, is in a category of its own — a category that contains adjectives like “profound,” and “uncanny.”

Narrated by a battle-scarred ex-military dog named Etna, Yoon’s novel inevitably invites comparisons to that other story out this summer about a weary warrior trying to make his way home. I’m no help here, given that I haven’t seen Christopher Nolan’s movie yet and I haven’t read Homer’s