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With an imaginative audacity and lyrical brilliance that puts him in the company of David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon, Rana Dasgupta paints a portrait of a century though the story of a hundred-year-old blind Bulgarian man in a first novel that...
"A very well written book and compelling for those interested in evaluations of human nature on the edge of insanity. I don't expect Disney to be desperate to secure movie rights, but personally I found this very gripping, if not exactly mood uplif..."
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"I remember a woman who studied literature in Moscow in Soviet times telling me that John Steinbeck was generally popular among both lecturers and students and I remembered not getting very far into The Grapes of Wrath, when I tried to read it in m..."
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