Literary ambrosia. This gets at least six stars from me. I stubbornly avoided this book for a long time because the promotional blurb just didn't make it sound appealing to me. I finally gave it a try so I could stop wondering why it won half a dozen awards and shows up on "must read" lists every...
An incredibly beautiful and moving book. Since I read it and gave it this rating, I have heard of people doing their entire doctoral theses on it and I think I should read it again and see whether I would give it 5 stars now.
"Time is a blind guide. Bog boy, I surfaced into the miry streets of the drowned city. For over a thousand years, only fish wandered Biskupin's wooden sidewalks. Houses, built to face the sun, were flooded by the silty gloom of the Gasawka River. Gardens grew luxurious in subaqueous silence; lili...
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