the portal

Parallel narratives follow clues extracted from the pages of an ancient Jewish text illustrated in the manner of Christian prayer book and rescued twice by Muslim librarians in Kosovo. The book’s story, from its creation to concealment, from Spain to Venice during the Inquisition, to war torn Sarajevo in the 1940’s via syphilis-ridden Vienna in the 19th century, presents a creatively mapped exploration of religious intolerance that continues to shake our world today. It seems more hastily crafted than some of her other work and a few may find it a bit didactic at times.