What I love most about Mandel’s novels, besides the intricate timelines and wonderful characters, is the surreal way that all the stories share so many connections, themes, meanings, and characters without often directly referencing each other, rewarding devoted readers with a rich world of extra insight.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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