I may have to put a moratorium on reading books by men placed in the 1970s. The amount of sexual violence they put the women in their stories through, for seemingly no reason, is shocking.

Maybe it gets better after we get past Garcia Madero’s section but the consistent homophobia/sexism did not do it for me. It feels like the book is confusing gratuitous sex scenes (including a rape scene by page 45) with being profound. Not to mention that a further part of the story is set in Israel - booooo.