This novel burns with the heat of the desert and I like this single star’s fiery amplitude.

‘… a single star, large like a mouthful of fire, hanging in the east.’

Source: Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation, trans. P.A. Bien (London: Faber and Faber, 1983), p. 12

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