A review by viktoriya
The Big Green Tent by

2.0

This was not your regular novel. It did start at point "A", but it didn't end at point "B". The first 100 or so pages read like a real novel: we were introduced to main characters and people around them and we follow them through their school years. After their graduation, the style of this book changes. We follow some of them, but we keep going back and forth in time (and it does get confusing at times), we also start following some other people (who happened to be somehow connected to our main characters). It felt more like a collection of short stories and personally, I didn't like it. I grew to love main characters in the first part of the book and that's who I wanted to follow, not the other people around them.
The writing, however, was gorgeous. I will certainly get my hands on Ulitskaya's other books.