Whew! This is like reading four books in one as Tabio rapidly cuts between multiple storylines, spending only 2-5 pages on each before jumping to the next. One is set in present-day Mexico City and is centered on a downtrodden crime writer who gets obsessed with watching women's college basketball. Another follows a CIA operative circa 1975 as he flees Vietnam and tracks him until the present. A third is about the unionist and anarchist upheavals in Spain in the 1920s. Yet another is about Leonardo DaVinci. Teh majority of reviewers felt that the book is frustrating read at the beginning, but the end is worth it. However, I found the converge of the stories to be a very unsatisfying ending.