Dimensions
129 x 198 x 33mm
A story of adventure enthralling in its scope and inventiveness, by turns comic and horrific, zestful and elegiac, involving a reclusive order of monks whose church is slowly sliding into the sea; Renaissance Rome with its sexual licence and political rivalries; war and atrocity in the Central Italian States; and a remote tribe in the West African rainforest. Running through this variegated fable is the search for the rhinoceros. The exuberance, the sheer proliferation of incident and scene, are disciplined and controlled by unerring narrative pace and cunning.
