True to Gustave Flaubert’s words on the importance of being “violent and original in art,” this book is a mesmerizing tale of tales, inscribed from one pen to another, growing with the intentions of its voices into a singular piercing work of art. A tough, uncompromisingly ambiguous novel. And the sheer beauty of it—loads and loads of breathtaking beauty. This is a magnificent opus by an author whose glorious time has come!