![]() ![]() ![]() No one, for instance, has ever looked into my eyes and said: ‘You’re so sad, and haunted, and out of step with others.’ But perhaps I’ve been hanging out in the wrong fantasy books. The Absolute Book A Novel Description: A bewitching epic fantasy about a revenge killing, a mysterious scroll box that has survived centuries of fires, and the book that changed everything 'Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, The Absolute Book is a cinematic tale that is by turns dark and dreamlike, yet ultimately hopeful. But the novel’s pacing is unpredictable and the dialogue occasionally has you ducking for cover. The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox Critics Opinion: Readers rating: Not Yet Rated Published Feb 2021 640 pages Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. Knox’s Purgatory, a dim, dull place where souls wait at platforms for trains that never come, is as memorably chilling as Pullman’s harpy-haunted world of the dead. ![]() Some elements shiver with genuinely otherworldly imagination. Imagine Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials on a panel with Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, moderated by Rachel Cusk nursing a migraine. Eventually it encompasses shape-shifting demigods, interdimensional gates, a war between Heaven and Hell and (naturally) book festivals. ![]() From these Borgesian beginnings, the story orbits into wider and wilder expanses. But she is also the recipient of an unlucky inheritance: an elusive manuscript, nicknamed the Firestarter, last spotted in the library of her grandfather’s ancestral pile. She is a scholar whose debut book, a study of libraries, is the toast of the literary circuit. Why do we never talk about Islamic slavery? ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |