review:
A beatifully constructed prose that describes an observation of a culture's obsession with shame - and all that follows. I enjoyed the book right from the start, with all its weird pacings which go from intricate detailed expositions of a single picture to paragraphs that move time in decades. Perhaps I liked this so much because I could visualise the characters and the descriptions and could relate to them. Perhaps this was why I was not much impressed with Quichotte despite it containing the same beautifully written narrations.,