|summary=Despite occasional flashes of impressive writing, at nearly 500 pages and with too many quick jumps between time periods, this is an epic which doesn't really reach its potential.
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The ultimate recent epic, for me, is the Danish seafaring saga, [[We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen]].