A novel impossible to read for long stretches. A tour de force and an eye-opening revelation of one man’s immense imaginative span.

The plot is convoluted and stretched over many personalities and historical periods, but there are periods of swift moving action, and always the pyrotechnic display of description

It’s an iced cake too rich for more than one mouthful at a time.

I intended to do a full review–and maybe one day I shall.