oliainchina's reviews
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I liked the first half of the book, since it was more personal and said a lot about what was going on inside and outside of LeRoi Jones. I would definitely prefer to read the same kind of account about his days in black movements. Here it looks more like a list of names hastily collected than a story of one man's development.

It is so much more special to be reading this novel once you know the place where the story is set - the city of Kiev. Apart from the whole story, there are marvellous episodes as if painted for a book of comics - dark and geometric, noir.