Reading caves

  1. Title and structure ► Publication year: 2002 ► Genre: Alternate history, Uchronia. ► Themes: Religion, Black Death, Islam, Buddhism, Reincarnation, War, History, Theology. ► Pages: 763 This is my  third book by Kim Stanley Robinson. Also, this is my first time reading him in English. Unlike the other two books I read, this one is not a sci-fi book. Also, this is the longest book I've read this year and the longest book I've read by this author. I confess that it was hard for me to finish it.  2. Title and structure ★★★★ ✩ Title ★★★★★ I love the title. It refers to the years in adulthood that are characterized as the chores of raising a family in the middle of routine, monotonous, and repetitive days. In one part, I understood these years as the years before widowhood.  Great title. And it delivers within the book! The phrase "years of rice and salt" can also be a reference to the fact that rice and salt were the two most critical staples of life in Asia at the t