This book quite possibly represents the beachhead of a new genre, one which affectively synthesizes biography & social history, visual art & theoretical overview, sweeping narrative & richly textured manifesto.

Though not the first priority for all readers, I was particularly inspired by the novel's radical alignment of form and content: just as Luxemburg spent her life demonstrating not only the possibility, but the necessity of the co-penetration of analysis and activism, this text not only represents her praxis, but replicates it through its well-woven multiplicity of focuses, bringing energy to political economy and world-spanning context to the most intensely personal moments.

In this and in other aspects, the novel goes a long way to redressing Rosa's under-emphasized influence on Leftist causes. I highly recommend to anyone interested in learning about socialism, feminism, political aesthetics, & the role of history in winning a new world.