Here’s an excerpt from Kirkus Reviews review of The Salt Line:

The text is extensive—at over 1,000 pages, there is much to get through (subplots include such wide-ranging fodder as the death of Alexander II of Russia and one character’s affair with a married woman in Israel), and the dense style of the prose can make for slow going (“a man could make a name for himself from diseases, not only from antiquities but from illnesses too, terrible as they might be”). Still the story spins so many distinctive elements—from the characters to the locations—that it coalesces into a unique look at the distant and not so distant past.

While grand in scale, the story creates specific individuals caught up in a richly detailed world.

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