An Evocative Novel That Finds Its Way Into the Hearts of Readers

Off the Shelf By Melissa Cistaro    |   Wednesday, September 02, 2015 Why is it that some books settle deep in our bones and refuse to leave us? Kafka says that a book might be the axe that cracks the frozen sea within us. Michael Ondaatje draws upon Nietzsche in the prologue of his fifth novel Divisadero: “We have art,” Nietzsche wrote, “so that we will not be destroyed by the truth.”... READ MORE