Ondaatje is simply the best. And this is his first and early stride from pure poetry into the novel- though it is considered a hybrid of the two. To read this book is to step into an eerie and violent and surprisingly satisfying dream, or into another incarnation where reality is wholly foreign and strange yet somehow recognizable.

Remarkably imaginative. Mystically linked stories that constellate our shared human predicament from the 1800s to the deep future. This book has everything- individual love stories, sweeping political and societal critiques, spirituality and mysticism, and high adventure.

Written by the living master of nature writing. A transcendent meditation on land and life and the meaning of it all.

A special little collection of stories. Read it for the writing, read it for the characters, read it for the delightfully strange worlds is weaves. THis is a great collection for those, like myself, who rarely read short stories.

Robinson is one of those writers- like McCarthy and Ondaatje, who have created a dream language of their very own.

The pages turn themselves as you sink deeper and deeper into an intoxicating and intriguing world populated by mystics musicians and one thoughtful bureaucrat.