![]() ![]() I recommend The Land of the Purple Ring to anyone who likes a book where you can get thoroughly and delightfully lost. I was startled in a fresh and enchanting way by every character, including but not nearly limited to a mushroom-loving wizard who vamazes (that’s related to the verb "to amaze"-but it’s more vamazing), a Russian dwarf hamster who is exactly smart enough for his own good, a lamppost who engages in the most dubious research, a crew of skeletal pirates dancing and singing across the high seas, and a narrative voice with a mind and motive of its own. This novel makes the reader mourn and laugh and speculate. But he escapes her mausoleum of a palace and her O’clock twins to travel many lands: marketplaces and swamps, the Tomb of Ego and the Mother of All Cheeses, and, in the end, to the seven colored rings where the lost reside. Time, the annihilating queen, commissions a slave made of clockwork. ![]() Natelson’s latest novel is a whip-smart fantasy with a pure fairy-tale soul. ![]()
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