Gene Wolfe SOLDIER OF SIDON

I have just finished Gene Wolfe's SOLDIER OF SIDON and can now rightly claim to have read all of his published novels. (His next one is due to be released in October). This "Latro" novel, like his recent PIRATE FREEDOM, is simply yet elegantly, told. The memory-lapse condition of the first-person narrator Latro, allows the reader to know more than the protagonist; a neat trick. Latro moves through a world where the ancient gods are real. He has been touched by one such god so that he does not remember as normal men do. Despite this considerable handicap Latro's upright character makes him many friends and even finds him a woman that loves him. I greatly enjoyed this novel. Every sentence streams off the page easily. The clarity of Wolfe's prose is a delight.

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