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The Ship of Fools - Cristina Peri Rossi
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"...In numerous short chapters prefaced by dreams, biblical quotes, and dreamlike descriptions of an ancient tapestry, Ecks' wanderings bring him to places with no names, and to eccentric characters who share his intense soul-searching interest about their place in a confused and polluted world...And Ecks, the perennial foreigner, finds delightfully unusual women to guide him in what is ultimately a series of loosely related stories about sex and power..."
(J.L., p. 189)