by Sally Lewis
Lyrical search for meaning in an unknowable world
Fireflies and Star Trails
[Mike Lewinski] 
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TOM KING relishes an enlightening history of the checkered progress of the war that humanity has waged on bacteria
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Fireflies
by Luis Sagasti
(Charco Press, £8.99)
“THE WORLD is a ball of wool. A skein of yarn you can’t find the end of.” That's how Luis Sagasti's ambitious novel Fireflies, a quest to find meaning in literature and life, begins.
Retelling a fantastical history of the world, the book, translated by Fionn Petch, is written in a highly lyrical form and it's refreshingly experimental in its structure as it weaves through stories and anecdotes of the famous and the infamous.
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