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An absolutely extraordinary novel, possessing a wondrous imaginative scope and a uncompromising, often unnerving strangeness that makes it very difficult to describe. It's also difficult to recommend without fair warning: it is unrelentingly weird, dense, difficult, and in many ways its true meanings are obscure. But still, I devoured it.This is the second book in the series, and even though I picked it up without having read the first (actually I found an old paperback copy on the street) I got...
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