Septimania

Septimania is a masterpiece: a rule-bending, category-smashing, delightful work of brilliance that combines history and longing and religion and timelessness with good old-fashioned story-telling. --Bill Buford, author of Heat and Among the Thugs Septimania is a love story, a kingdom, a novel of wild and rich imagination. For Levi, for his Jews, his Catholics, his Arabs, and even the Scientists of his creative universe, all roads lead to Rome. There is a lyricism to Levi s writing that is sometimes religious, sometimes profane, but always musical. --A.B. Yehoshua, author of Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning novel, A Woman in Jerusalem" A richly imagined, complex tapestry of gleaming threads woven through the centuries to converge in a glorious epiphany. This is realism as magical as the best of Garcia Marquez.--Homerjo Aridjis, author of 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile" Septimania is a voracious novel, boundless in its curiosity and fearless in its execution. It is a storytelling feat. --Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling" Levi's fable of love, religion and physics dances with a spirited and lambent invention, rendered in precise and often lyrically beautiful prose.--Owen Sheers, author of I Saw a Man and Resistance [L]aced with philosophy and wit. A thoroughly intellectual postmodern fable, wise yet melancholy, meant to be read slowly and savored." Highly intelligent, insanely ambitious, and restlessly imaginative, Levi s novel is also so recondite that any attempt to accurately describe its plot risks sounding like madness...Levi s vast creation pays off once you give in to its unique fusion of history, music, and the origin of belief in invisible things." Stupendous.--Alvaro Enrigue, The New York Times Book Review, By the Book " For people who love to dream.