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By the author of the highly acclaimed literary bestseller Dictionary of the Khazars, this is a tale of a mysterious quest that is part modern Odyssey and part crossword puzzle. It begins with the story of a brilliant but failed architect in Belgrade and his search for his father, an officer who vanished in Greece during World War II. The truth about his fate--some of it set in motion 2,000 years ago and some of it by the Nazis--is raveled in the history and secrets of Mount Athos, the most ancient of all monasteries, perched atop its inaccessible mountain on the Aegean.
"Critics are like medical students: they always think a writer is suffering from the very disease they happen to be studying at the time." "What is a book, really, other than a collection of words well crossed?"
0Pro: The flowery language is so vivid and surreal that it really makes you stop to envision all the splendor being laid out before you Con: This can make some passages difficult to read and makes it feel like you've been stuck on a page foreverrrr
0I'm only a few pages in, but I am already awestruck at how artfully this book plays around with language. It will introduce a concept in a vague way, circle around it for a moment, and then in one swift move punctuate it with a sentence that will make you pause and put the book down to deconstruct it.
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