The digital format allows you to experience the “story within a story” structure intimately. Anya’s fairy tale is rendered in italicized blocks; on an e-reader, the change in typography becomes a visual cue that you are sinking into the past.
Winter Garden clocks in at over 400 pages. It is a deep, immersive read. EPUB files are “reflowable,” meaning the text adjusts perfectly to your screen size—whether you are reading on a 6-inch Kindle, a 10-inch iPad, or a 6.7-inch smartphone. You can increase the font size without destroying the layout, reducing eye strain during those late nights when you have to know if the gates of Leningrad fall.