A review by asbach
The Big Green Tent by

4.0

Follows in the tradition of great Russian novels before it through its wide ranging narrative style, its ability to weave together the lives of many characters, and its poignant portrayal of the impacts of the historical and cultural time on the daily lives of individual people. I thought the atemporal narrative worked quite well for a story of this type, although I did lose the thread a few times. Reading this book feels like listening to many good friends tell you winding stories of their parents and grandparents (and then slowly coming to see how interconnected those stories are).