Wartime London, broken, layered timeline and characterisation, and a boy’s opening eyes give Ondaatje’s new novel an aura of mystery and thrill
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The novel inhabits the forgotten world of early blues, while fakery and the fantastic, served in overlapping narratives, keeps a steady, modernist beat
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A remarkable odyssey, at first in search of a cure for cancer and then, increasingly, in search of understanding.
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The writing is uniformly informed by a quiet but insistent passion—for books, writers, reading and other book-lovers
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