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I am finding this to be just as remarkable as all of the amazing reviews suggest.

Have I already read this?

I first read this book in maybe 2001, a couple of years after my mother died in Papua New Guinea. It didn’t make much impact. A friend has suggested I give it another go.

The only book in English at Nikita’s, Olkhon Island. So I swapped The People’s Act of Love for it.

The only book in English at Nikita’s, Olkhon Island. So I swapped The People’s Act of Love for it.

Recommended by Rosie Wheen

“...the butterfly is so fit an emblem of the human soul that its name in Greek is psyche, the word for soul. We have not much language to appreciate this phase of decay, this withdrawal, this era of ending that must precede beginning. Nor of the violence of the metamorphosis, which is often spoken of as though it were as graceful as a flower blooming.”

“...the butterfly is so fit an emblem of the human soul that its name in Greek is psyche, the word for soul. We have not much language to appreciate this phase of decay, this withdrawal, this era of ending that must precede beginning. Nor of the violence is metamorphosis, which is often spoken of as though it were as graceful as a flower blooming.”

Restarted in October 2016 with audiobook, read by Simon Slater.

Bought at Shakespeare & Company in Paris, 31 October 2015.

Really engaging and interesting. As a sufferer of posture-related tension headaches, I'm finding parallels with my own experience.

Bought at the book sale under Waterloo Bridge for £3.83. That was all the money I had, so the seller let me off £0.17p.

Thorough, thought-provoking and reassuring.

Reassuring, and challenging, and enlightening.

Feeling some dread about this story unfolding.

Am up to the train wreck 80s.