I read that some time ago. It's well-written, by which I mean very readable and enjoyable -- one of those books you hate to put down. I think you'll enjoy it. If you do enjoy it and want to read another good book, also well-written and hard to put down, Hanta Yo is in the collection. This is also and extremely long book, one I validated (I pity the poor person who scanned it), and, I think, a classic and an award winner --Pulitzer Prize? Anyway, it was so interesting and I got so involved that when I stopped validating for the night, in order to go to bed, I ended up reading some more pages in the book to see what happened. Then, of course, I had to read them again to validate, but that was o.k. Cindy ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs