This is one of those novels I picked up and put down numerous times over the years. I think this is mostly because while not expressly long or expressly dense, it’s the right combination of both to be just dense and long enough to feel a little like a chore. And that’s a shame, because I really enjoyed the novel and thought it was quite funny. It just requires some patience. We meet our hero, Kien, a Sinologist with a growing library and an ego […]