Sinai Tapestry, first novel of the Jerusalem Quartet by Edward Whittemore. Preplexing, mesmerising, fun and larger than life. 4/5
With Borges, by Alberto Manguel. A delightful book that opens up some part of the magical mind that was Borges. 4/5
Great fiction is hard to sell. What happens to a person who reads a book— if it’s any good— is a profoundly private and irrational process, and the more distinctive the novel, the more private and irrational the process. That’s where the trouble with publishing begins.
— Judy Karasik, Afterword to Sinai Tapestry