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Using deliberately old-fashioned prose—slow, magisterial, omniscient, sometimes myth-like—Fois brings gravity to this three-part tale of a brief sojourn in “Paradise” as the lovers meet; a decades-long span in “Hell,” as the Chironis are caught in the bloody 20th century; and a purgatory that offers the hope of a new beginning, or at least the story’s continuation. This a transportive and striking novel. —Publishers Weekly
Fois’ descriptive prose is lavish, powerfully evoking time and place. It’s as if nature is possessed of a richness of expression that humans have yet to acquire . . . Mazzarella’s translation is flawless. —The Independent
His poetic style is reminiscent of classics such as Manzoni’s The Betrothed and Lampedusa’s The Leopard. —The Tablet
Fois combines a remarkable number of different ways of seeing the world, different forms of storytelling, different kinds of language and different narrative voices. —The Observer