Appropriately enough Vizenor's most acclaimed book is the one I enjoyed the least. The satire of the Chinese bureaucracy was a bit been there done that for me. Other sections took place wholly within shamanistic dreamspace and I had no idea what he was getting at. I haven't read a lot of the sources that were his touchstones. Perhaps that would have illuminated things a bit. I would love to know what Chinese scholars and Chinese readers thought of this book.There is still nothing like him though: boundless, bizarre, confrontational and sometimes hilarious. ( )