So far a total disappointment.What happened to the brilliant author of Moth Smoke?This book with his narrator's monologue looks like an attempt to simplify both: literature and points of view.Even irony seems put here and there without a logic.And the effect of all these fake attempts to pretend the...
This is a lovely, short, very easy-to-read post 9/11 book.The structure of this is tale is Changez telling his personal story to a burly American visitor (probably a spook of some sort) to his country, in his function as a guide to Pakistan. The tone was very reminiscent of Rudyard Kipling, at leas...
Changez is the best Pakistan has to offer the world, brilliant, handsome, ambitious. Nothing can go wrong for him; he sprints through Princeton, best in his class, and easily obtains the best job in New York City and a beautiful American girlfriend. And then 9/11 happens and everything does go wrong...
The rating on this may be 1 star too high. I'm trying not to let the abrupt ending spoil the entire experience. The main character's voice is done well -- if you can handle lots of dependent clauses and non-restrictive clauses. I fell into the rhythm quickly and plowed through the book in one night....
Everything about this novel is a metaphor - some aspects more obvious than others. This novel was not very long at all but it has taken me a couple of weeks to digest it. The distinctive style/format of the story is captivating and provides ample opportunity for a certain degree of dark humor.More...
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