How do we even begin to narrate the history of the world? Where do
we start, and where do we end? Fireflies is Sagasti's bold and
original attempt to answer these questions. Roaming across time and
geography, he lights on an eclectic array of characters and events
that at first glance seem unrelated, and teases out their stories
to reveal unexpected points of contact between them. Stanley
Kubrick, Joseph Beuys, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Neil Armstrong,
Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Beatles, Japanese poets, Brazilian
priests, Russian cosmonauts and many more cross these pages, and
Sagasti finds common threads that weave them together into a single
narrative.The fireflies themselves perhaps provide the key to
understanding this book. They become a metaphor for the resistance
of certain luminous moments, certain twinkling fragments of
history, to the passing of time. They remind us that events do not
always simply disappear neatly into the darkness, but rather
remain, floating in the air, lighting up the night sky
indefinitely. Sagasti shows us that the present moment, like this
novel, is a tapestry woven of a multiplicity of times.Using his
unique, poetic and keenly observant style, Sagasti transforms the
accidents of history into a single, lyrical constellation, and for
the reader it is an extraordinary sight.
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