The Book on Fire eBook Keith Miller
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Balthazar, book thief and bon vivant, arrives in Alexandria to steal from the famous library. But from the moment he steps off the boat, a veiled figure shadows him. Zeinab, literary prostitute and avenging ghost, will be his chaperone through the city of books. With her help, he succeeds in penetrating the underground library. But once inside, instead of ransacking it, he becomes obsessed with the youngest librarian, Shireen, who was born in the library and is herself more than half book. Their love story forms the heart of the novel. Balthazar schemes to get Shireen out of the library. But Zeinab has plans of her own . . .
In sumptuous, evocative prose, ‘The Book on Fire’ explores the relationships between creation and destruction, between belief and imagination, between desire and fulfillment.
This new edition contains the bonus story, City of Bones, and a brand new cover
Ursula K. Le Guin said of Keith Miller’s first novel, ‘The Book of Flying’, that it was “original in concept and elegant in language”, and Booklist called it “a beautiful and haunting modern fable that reads like exquisite poetry”. This second novel amply fulfils the promise of the first.
The Book on Fire eBook Keith Miller
Keith Miller's books feel, in my opinion, to be under appreciated.They're dense, and the prose can sometimes be a bit of a slog - but that is because there is a lot going on. The imagery is rich and there is meaning everywhere, but that can be difficult to dive into unless you're prepared for it.
But, if you are prepared, his books create wonderfully beautiful and tragic fantasy worlds. They don't hold your hand and explain it to you as if you are a visitor, yet instead treat you as a tenant of that world listening to the tale directly.
These stories deserve more attention than they get.
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The Book on Fire eBook Keith Miller Reviews
Reading a truly great book causes a beautifully tragic sensation because as you delight in each new line of text and turn of plot, there's also the stark and stinging reality that you've just consumed a beautiful moment that never again will be. Before you began, before you cracked the spine and turned the first page, the book was all mystery and potential. But after hours alone, having greedily devoured the text and the images and magic that they produced, you put down a spent book. The book that was afire with life is now in some ways consumed. You can read and reread--and you will if it's truly great--and you can carefully pass it along to other kindred souls, and then delight in seeing the flash and flush that reminds you of your first time, but you're still left hungry for more. For more first times.
Keith Miller's story is bizarrely and lushly written, exuding the feel of a just-awakened-from dream that is simultaneously deeply familiar and fantastically foreign. Or, perhaps more exactly, it both creates and provides an analogy for that warmly disoriented feeling you have when you emerge from an engrossing story, unsure of which is more real, the images and characters still parading around in your mind or the concrete reality of the book, the chair, and the coffee cup that surround you. In this story, Balthazar's obsession about his own treasured books is equaled only by his compulsion to find and consume the next great text--an easy analogy for this reader to relate to. And though this tid-bit only hints at what's to come, it seems from Miller's description that the love of books and the love of a lover become intertwined as the story progresses, forcing Balthazar to destroy what he loves because he loves it, thus acting out the feeling of reading great books--the consumption of something one loves because one loves it.
I look forward to the opportunity of reading more of this story, knowing already that once it's done, though I'll hoard it away in my secret stash, I, like Balthazar, will be left hungering for more.
I thought this was good but nothing special. It didn't particularly hold my interest. I already do not remember most of the details of this book.
-- this book and Keith Miller's other book, The Book of Flying, are the most magnificent books I've ever read. Nobody else has ever written so eloquently about what it means to love books, words, and stories, and in such a magical and brilliant story.
Wonderful
This book is amazing. Miller's second published work. Just as well written as his first but definitely geared towards a more mature audience. Fantastic writing. I hope he continues to write because he is one of my all time favorite authors.
This is one of the best books I've read in a decade. It's a wonderful Odyssey about a bibliophile, and it's both charming and disturbing on many levels. Keith Miller is a brilliant writer and I recommend this to anyone who loves books and who's looking for an exciting story line.
Keith Miller's second novel is even more erudite, sensible & shocking than his first (The Book of Flying). At first glance, The Book on Fire is a story of impossible, incendiary loves set in a mythologised Alexandria. But the reader slowly catches on with the author's devious deceptions, realizing that woven between the lines of the sumptuous story is a treatise on the inalienable freedom of words.
Miller is a perfect showman the whole is breath-taking, filthy & sublime; his characters are bibliophiles & whores, blaspheming priests & addicts. The plot twists & turns & coils upon itself; the prose gently cajoles before snapping at you with expletives & scatology.
The Book on Fire is not for the casual reader or the tourist it is the antithesis of our insipid, white anglo-saxon sheepishness, confusing cultures, creeds & morals in a world which reveals to us our own madness.
Keith Miller's books feel, in my opinion, to be under appreciated.
They're dense, and the prose can sometimes be a bit of a slog - but that is because there is a lot going on. The imagery is rich and there is meaning everywhere, but that can be difficult to dive into unless you're prepared for it.
But, if you are prepared, his books create wonderfully beautiful and tragic fantasy worlds. They don't hold your hand and explain it to you as if you are a visitor, yet instead treat you as a tenant of that world listening to the tale directly.
These stories deserve more attention than they get.
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