Garcia takes magic realism to a whole new dimension ....ben okri , rushdie , gunter grass all trail a step behind. Despite the translation the language is surreal and like a vivid picture of time passing by . The story or the plot is never the USP of a good book , its just every page ..... you wish it to go on and never to end ....you are not looking for a jeffrey archer style twist in the tale or a sidney sheldon type dramatic anti-climax ......the potency is storyless , something like how Naipaul writes once in a while with no beginning or end ....just middle. READ IT .