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.