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A masterful, lush prose; vivid character types; a flight of imagination; sharply observed details—Scarlett Thomas is unique in her kind, and it’s impossible to tear yourself away from her novels.
Scarlett Thomas’s new novel—by the English writer who has gained fame as one of the best and most original novelists of today—is a paradoxical family saga: witty, captivating, with many shades of meaning. It is a novel about the secrets of botany and the mysterious connection between plants and people; about sex; about the labyrinths of the human mind; about magical books; and about finding eternal freedom at the cost of death. The fatal seed pods that the heroes inherit promise enlightenment. But who among them will dare to step beyond the limits of life and death?