![]() ![]() Khan’s aspiration to systematically bracket Polo’s accounts echoes the political realities. At every step, Polo defeats the purpose of the frames and questions its boundaries that refrain him from putting the blocks together. To have a better understanding of Polo’s narration, Khan deploys - chessboard and atlas - as the predetermined tools to lend a structure to Polo’s commentary. Inevitably, it barred me from reading the book under the lens of political empire and sovereign logics. Under the current context, while rereading the text, I was taken by surprise that in the past, I had been caught within the poetic-philosophy framework of the cities. Largely, the text’s liminal position between modern and postmodern forms catches the attention of the readers and critic alike. Even the English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge has dedicated a long poem Kubla Khan to the ‘slight disposition’ of the emperor of the Tartars who ruled as far as the regions of current day EuroAsia.Įarly sailing ship for voyages of discovery Image Credit: Courtesy of Creative Commons Even if the cities documented in the book are as fantastical as the Be'er Sheva, the travel accounts of the real-time Italian explorer Marco Polo and Kublai Khan’s court were made popular in the 13th century Italian Renaissance with a travelogue The Travels of Marco Polo written down by Rustichello da Pisa and Polo. The second part holds true for this book - with less than 150 pages it would force you to take long pauses before turning a page and often even moving to the next paragraph to understand the meaning of the unsaid ‘between the lines’. If the cover of the book does not affirm the quality of the book, then the number of pages is nowhere the yardstick to measure the intensity of the read. My first encounter of the bond between these two countries came with the two protagonists - Venetian traveller Marco Polo and the Tartars emperor Kublai Khan - of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, published in 1972. At turns comic and yearning, lyric and aphoristic, Ninety-Nine Stories of God serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists.ġ12909 books suggested | I don't feel so good.Book cover of Invisible Cities Image Credit: Courtesy of the author The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest, a demolition derby, a formal gala, and a drugstore, where he’s in line to get a shingles vaccination. ![]() Most of Williams’s characters, however, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for Him when He’s standing right there. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O. It’s the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass-a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. In Ninety-Nine Stories of God, she takes on one of mankind’s most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. If you believe that your submission was caught by the spam filter or you have any questions/concerns, feel free to message us.īy: Joy Williams | 131 pages | Published: 2013 | Popular Shelves: short-stories, fiction, religion, short-fiction, library | Search "Ninety-Nine Stories of God" We reserve the right to moderate at our own discretion. ![]() Social Media links & blogs (Twitter, Facebook Instagram, YouTube).Trolling, insults, or excessive hostility.Memes, image macros, jokes, circlejerking, or spamming.Low-effort comments or ones that do not contribute to discussion.Blatant Self Promotion - do not submit feedback for your writing here.Reposts: Use reddit's search function to check if your question has already been submitted.Mobile links/link shorteners/Facebook links.DAE/TIL/ELI5/PSA/(SERIOUS)/CMV styled titles.Submissions with no direct connection to books (this includes circlejerky submissions).Submissions that don't ask for book suggestions!.Which gives: Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker’s father. ! Spoilers ! < (remove the spaces between the arrows and the exclamation mark) Spoilers Please use spoiler tags when posting plot revealing information about a particular book. What is any library incomplete without? Literature Related Subreddits Useful Postsīook suggestions for beginners, veterans, and expertsīest suggestions based of two books you loved r/SuggestMeABook is a sub where you can find new books based on suggestions from the community. To The Top Hot New Top | | Check out /r/Books! About ![]()
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