Imagine yourself sitting on a theatre seat and staring at the stage where a bunch of names handwritten on a piece of cardboard paper boldly by the same person, are going back and forth to bigger carboard written names like "England, America, Roma, Florence" endlessly and a dubbed voice talking over them boring you to death. This is how i feel reading this book. A portrait for 700 pages for god's sake! A casual neighborhood rumor or playing pac man can give you much more literary pleasure than this one. If you are over 30 don't waste your time with this.