![]() A long slide into an imaginary history glimpsed in explosive, Technicolor bursts, punctuated by the stutter of machine guns, sweetened by rice wine and almond tarts. ![]() You pick them up and it’s hard to put them down … Thirty years of love and war and vengeance and betrayal-that’s what Lee is offering here. They are terrible temptations, these books. Both more ordered and more chaotic at the same time. Friends that come and go … Mostly you get hooked because Lee has created a world that feels as real and logical and lived-in as the one outside the covers. “You fall into these books like a love affair-all rough physicality and surprise-but stay (across thousands of pages) because there’s so much more to it than that.
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