by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Black Death rolls through Europe in the 14th century, but instead of killing one-third of the population, the plague destroys 99 percent of the peoples of Europe. This alternate history speculates on a world where China and Islam are the formative world powers, while a fiercely innovative and protective India struggles to maintain its independence. Generations of a reconfigured history unfold through the voices of several characters reincarnated each time they die, usually with no memory of the past. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

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by Hope on May 27, 2007

This could have been a great book but... the writing style was lacking . after slogging through 300 of the 500+ pages I realized it was not going to suddenly create the magic that keeps me reading. Thats the way of karma , things keep repeating themselves but to read about such tedious lives over and over again was just plain old boring. That with the fact that the author just seemed to end a life when he wrote himself into a hole ... pointless reading. I should have put it down sooner.

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