"This book is not for the faint of heart," Andrew Wessels has observed about Ricardas Gavelis\'s Vilnius Poker, and this is all the more true for Sun-Tzu\'s Life in the Holy City of Vilnius, the last work the Lithuanian master of the macabre wrote before his sudden death in 2002 at the age of 52.
Gavelis, as always, ladles deeply from the wellspring of history, but the novel, although set inside the corruption and cynicism of Lithuania\'s post-Soviet space, is horrifyingly p. "This book is not for the faint of heart," Andrew Wessels has observed about Ricardas Gavelis\'s Vilnius Poker, and this is all the more true for Sun-Tzu\'s Life in the Holy City of Vilnius, the last work the Lithuanian master of the macabre wrote before his sudden death in 2002 at the age of 52
