Erica B. reviewed on 8/6/2009

It's hard to describe this book because it's like no other I've ever read. Once one slogs through however much one must slog through before one gets the rhythm of the book, it's extraordinarily beautiful. The characters are not immediately fleshed-out, they're hard to keep straight, few are sympathetic, the heroes are not who we think they are, we whip through the generations so fast that it's hard to even care about them. But the book reads like a very, very long bedtime story, perhaps told to answer a child's question, "Daddy, where did our family come from?" and told just unbelievably beautifully. One comes away with the conviction that one has just read something that not only was deeply enjoyable to oneself but that really does deserve to be called a "great book."

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