Really great multi-threaded novel, with five very different stories united around an almost-lost ancient greek text, a comic novel about a shepherd who gets turned into a donkey. Some of it's set around the fall of Constatinople, some in our time in Idaho, and some in the distant future aboard an ark-spaceship that has rescued a few people from a dying earth. The writing, the plotting, is all fantastic. Hard to say much more without spoliers, but I'm stunned by how good and clever this...and despite a lot of heaviness it's ultimately redemptive rather than depressing.
And now I have to read his other stuff - can't believe I have waited so long.
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