All writers can be accused of betraying the world of their childhood as much as they preserve it, but when that world has been brutally destroyed the challenge to the literary imagination itself is larger, the unease inevitably greater.
That he is none of those things should disturb our sleep, but there is a larger cause for unease.
In Trevor's case, since he was born in Ireland and has lived for decades in England, the larger dimension of unease -- the Troubles -- has played an important role in his writing.
It also framed the crackdown in the larger context of the unease Uzbekistan's leadership has displayed since revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan have swept aside other corrupt and clannish post-Soviet leaders.
A large part of that unease is a legacy of slavery and segregation.
The Qatari Investment Authority, Sainsbury's largest shareholder, has expressed unease about the retailer's bid.
The unease this large swath of the electorate feels toward him, he says, will pass once he has locked in the nomination.
In the long term, there are concerns that supporting a government that simultaneously represses democratic rights and the practice of Islam might spread unease in the larger Muslim world.
It is feared that investor unease in those larger markets could make it harder for startups in Southeast Asia to raise funding and maintain their desired valuations.
As in France, the large Muslim presence stirs particular unease.
