I bought this in Schipol airport because I landed an hour early, at 5:30 AM and had time to kill before the taxi came and got me. and this was by far one of the cheaper and most interesting books (especially since the back went on about how it was as good as, if not better than, The Cloud Atlas, which I recently read and totally loved. So I bought it. I was about 200 pages through it when I left Amsterdam and realized only in Germany that I’d left it behind in my hotel room. I’ve looked in airports in Europe and Asia, bookstores in India and finally, a friend found it for me! Voila, I’m finally finishing it!