This turns out to be an essential element of the plot. Here the urge is the real, tragic thing-a deep longing to bring back a picture of the universe that includes a particular person-a longing so intense that the person who has been left will try to break the rules of the universe itself. This is a novel about the urge to perform what I call often necromancy-let’s call it resurrection, in this case–as much as it is about anything. But that turned out to be a good thing it’s a complicated 684-page novel I needed to slow down my reading so I could digest the ideas. And then it came during one of the busiest weeks of the semester, so I couldn’t read it as fast as I wanted to. I was so eager to read Nick Harkaway’s new novel Gnomon that I ordered it from the UK, where it was published in November, rather than waiting for US publication in January.
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