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For some reason starting almost every important story with “Oh, but wait, I need to tell you something before I do that” got annoying and I found myself skipping paragraphs. Otherwise, great work by great author.
Skipped some sections, may be need to revisit those circular fairy tale loops at another stage in life.
read it in one go, over 24 hours, still have the tender feelings for Gogol and his relationships three days later
deep beautiful sentences
from interview with author “I've since been to Israel, and even though i do feel a kinship with the country, I know I am not of the place either. So multiple places have claims on my heart. I expect it will always be this way for me. I don't see it as a happy condition. I think it is healthier and more natural fro a person to feel himself at home in one place. For some reason, this identification is something all people crave, which is why the experience of exile is painful.”
the first two parts were amazing. i was transported not even to the medieval exotics of Persia and Uzbekistan, but to my childhood, when fiction reading was the highest / most sought after pleasure. but the last part soaked its ends in the Atlantic turning this otherwise magical story into a blockbuster.