It’s a profoundly non-nerdy book. The main character has so much disdain for the trite and linear ways of the Westerner that suffuses the entire narrative. I th

It’s a profoundly non-nerdy book. The main character has so much disdain for the trite and linear ways of the Westerner that suffuses the entire narrative. I thought it was a brilliant achievement the first time I read it cover to cover, and still do.