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This book's narrator has got very poignant, thoughtful and painfully honest voice. He talks about tragedies, war crimes, including his own, and the devastating beauty of the Mediterranean in one lengthy unstoppable monologue; kaleidoscope of places, people, destinies; connection of history, time, legends and reality... I thought I would not be able to read the sentence with the length of 500 pages, but you forget somehow that there is no full stops.

Wonderful mediation on the tragedy and beauty of the region. Sometimes the style might get a bit too peppered with the references to the ancient greek heros, but overall the book is profound. I am not surprised the author has won Goncourt prize this year with his newest book.

Translation is brilliant a well.