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Average rating4.1
I don't know why this took me almost six months to read. It's 200 pages.
Very PoMo, no narrative to speak of. Beautiful prose. Mostly Marco Polo describing boatloads of cities to Kublai Khan. Individual cities' descriptions are quite short. A theme or themes do emerge, but as there's not a clear narrative thread, I didn't have a hook that made me want to pick it up and read more. I guess that's why it took six months. I don't read a lot of postmodern lit, so this might be a me problem.