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    <body><![CDATA[I found the book to be a very inventive journey into history and travel writing. The best part of the book is the author's description of life in Egypt -- primarily Nashawy. The characters come to life and I got a wonderful sense of the struggle of daily life in Egypt. It's also enlightening to see ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64821427">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely loved it. The characters are vibrant and the description of the Nile Delta and its people is so vivid, you think you can hear, see, and smell them. The historical part is also very, very interesting!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed the one layer of story about Ghosh's experiences as a student in Egypt, but never felt that connected to the historical tale of the Egyption trader and Indian slave that was interwoven.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What an interesting book!  Different from anything else I've ever read.  Partly because it can fit into so many different categories/genres, but mostly because of the Indian-Hindi/Egyptian-Muslim insight into life, religion, history, etc.  In other words, it's an interesting look into both groups of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18753833">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A travelogue of an Indian scholar retracing the lives of merchants of the Indian Ocean during the turn of the first millennium.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Age of amazing enlightenment: trading world from India to Spain 1000 years ago. wow!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have never read Ghosh, and have read lots of fiction about India but all from a Western perspective, so I'm hoping for a jolt of perspective. Someone I know compared this to Edward Jones's Known World, in its complex discussion of slavery.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ghosh's ancestor may or may not have traveled to North Africa and on to Egypt and the Nile Delta, and Ghosh may or may not have found real traces of him and his descendants as they convert to Judaism and leave written records behind to be excavated in the 1990s, but he tells a whale of a fascinating...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21297939">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The author writes simultaneously about his time spent in a small rural Egyptian village and traces the historical paths of an Indian slave and his Middle Eastern Jewish master. A good look at how history shapes our present and how we, in the present, shape our history. Well-written and enjoyable - a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12631158">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book several years ago while I was in college and I don't remember it being &quot;dull&quot; or &quot;boring.&quot;  Maybe it was because at the time I had recently been in Egypt and therefore  connected with his accounts of Egyptian village life... but I enjoyed it enough that I bought ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1013298">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is good in two ways. Like the title suggests, it is a history of a slave around 2000 BC (i think). It is also the story of the author's journey around Egypt and his struggle to understand the story of the slave and the culture. Overall, it's not bad. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite books..Why? It showed me that progress isn't linear. Jews, muslims, hindus lived and traded and even intermarried in the 16th century along the trade routes which is inconceivable today...]]></body>
    
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