The prose is rich with fresh imagery, but those images are never just decoration, or descriptive showmanshp they all have their purpose and their place. It is 1912 and pilgrim has been admitted to the burgholzli psychiatric clinic in zurich, switzerland, having failedonce againto commit suicide. Robert ross, a sensitive nineteenyearold canadian officer, went to war the war to end all wars. Does your opinion change throughout the course of the novel.
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