The author’s framework for exploring this is the life of trees. “A monumental novel about reimagining our place in the living world.”Īfter reading it you cannot help but feel that the human race is bent on a suicidal mission, that we will take most of nature down with us and that our tenure as a species on this earth has been wild and reckless and over in the blink of an eye (in evolutionary terms). It is hard to know where to begin to describe it so I will give you the New York Times quote from inside the dustjacket: It is not a book that rewards being read a few pages at a time, it is best approached with an hour or so in hand. If you are put off already, read on, because I must balance that by saying that it is a quite extraordinary book and every hour I have spent with it has been time well spent. It is also a book that demands to be read slowly, almost at the pace of a tree growing, so it requires something of an investment. I have read a couple of other books alongside it, mainly because it is currently only available in hardback and at 502 pages it does not slip readily into the handbag. It was the final book I tackled on last year’s Man Booker Shortlist. According to my Goodreads account, I started this book on 4 December.
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