The Weight of Smoke (In the Land of Whispers, Book One) Review

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(More customer reviews)THE WEIGHT OF SMOKE is like nothing you'll read except for the great works of another era -- works by Shakespeare or Cervantes or Wu Ch'eng-en, for instance. I don't mean to put this book in their class -- only time can do that -- but Minkoff has created a mental and spiritual world quite unlike ours that exists all on its own, solid and palpable. Not surprisingly, especially since it is the Elizabethan world (who ever remembers that Capt. John Smith was an Elizabethan?), it is dense, allusive, and complex -- anyone with a short attention span should flee in terror. Its soaring and vivid descriptions of virgin American countryside on the one hand and the world of water that Sir Francis Drake ruled left me gasping and somewhat suspicious that I was in the presence of the reincarnated. In an era in which American prose writers have largely sacrificed depth of expression on a darkly glittering altar of surface, George Minkoff is to be applauded for keeping both alive.

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