Often characterized as science fiction, though that doesn't quite describe it. A brilliant linguistic creation and a meditation on history, language and memory, as well as the dark human fascination with the power to destroy. It's set in a future where our world has been wiped away by nuclear catastrophe and that world and its language exist as altered memories.The narrator is justly compared to Huck Finn. This is a wonderful, powerful, brilliant book. I wish everyone could read it.

There will be someone here who will love this book.