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Mixing American history with wild fabulation, and parental grief with Buddhist spirituality, the book’s weirdness and originality helped smuggle through its schmaltzy moralizing about selflessness and empathy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

And so, there’s a lot of critical fabulation within a lot of the mythos of that culture.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2023

The book is a work of raucous fabulation, which owes more to Bulgakov and Zamyatin than it does to Solzhenitsyn.

From New York Times • May 24, 2022

It doesn't connect to a single observable thing in the world — it's sheer fabulation.

From Salon • May 15, 2021

On the other hand there is both greater variety and greater distinction in the characters, a more developed fabulation and a wonderful deepening and refinement of emotional description.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno