WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A visionary work of fiction by A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald (Annie Proulx) A magnificent writer.  - Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time A beautifully fragmented look at man s longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex.  - Washington Post