A novel which I will have to revisit at some point. So many parallels are apparent between the two main sections of the book, and symbols of the more fantastical first part clearly bring more meaning to the harsher, more realistic second part; and vice versa. There's ambiguity concerning when the events take place in each half - and if the narrator is the same in each half, or two different people, or two incarnations of the same eternally damned soul... This is the kind of book that, if I had the chance and the attention span, I would love to write a paper about.