The Castle of Crossed Destinies

This was a complex, experimental novel about a group of people gathered at a castle, and later a tavern, telling their recent adventures not by speaking, but by using cards from a tarot deck. The author uses the images and the patterns in which the cards are selected to produce probable narratives and gain insight into the lives and choices of the story tellers. It is not a light read. It is more like a collection of interrelated short stories dealing with archetypal themes and images.

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