Darya Kozlova Kozlova থেকে 81030 Carinola CE, Italy
After reading so much Latin American literature, I asked a friend from Nigeria to recommend to me a book that would teach me about his culture. This was the book he recommended. Don't expect it to be light and happy. This was actually quite similar to what I usually read, but such a different way of life was described. It is sad to see how the native culture is disappearing. This book also taught me one more important thing: yams are way more useful than I ever realized.
Whenever I have to settle on my favorite volume of Sandman, it's a tie between this one and Brief Lives. After my first reading, it was Brief Lives, but whenever I reread it now, it's this one. It always feels like this is where everything first comes together, plus it has Lucifer who, thanks to Mike Carey's excellent series, has become one of my favorite characters. Something Neil Gaiman does very well is of course bring all kinds of different mythologies together. At the end of the day, this is just awesome :D