Recent Reading: The Discovery of Heaven

This is a big book (900+ pgs) in my translation that takes big ideas seriously I will confess to occasionally getting lost, but there were many passages worth pondering and memorizing, like this one:

People returning from a journey carry the distances they have traveled with them like outspread wings—until they put the key in their front door. Then the wings fold up, and they are home again, as though in the center of an impassable steel ring on the horizon. The moment they close the door behind them, they can no longer imagine they have ever been away.

Thanks to @angenita for recommending Mulisch and @tedmurphy7 for recommending this title in particular.

Tell me in the comments:

1. Have you read any Mulisch?
2. What’s the last long book you were impressed by?