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The Far Pavilions
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Start date
July 15, 2014
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Hana
Why we're reading this
The standard against which all British Raj novels are judged. And an incredibly great story!

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Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂
3.5★

When I finish my own review, I'm going to find & like the review where the reviewer packed it in about 160 pages from the finish. & I'm writing"like" when I mean applaud. This novel was more of an epic struggle than an enjoyable experience. 960 pages or not, I'm a fast, avid reader. No book should take me four months to read.

My reading progress really does the work of a review!

READING PROGRESS
08/21 page 42 4.0% "Instantly enthralled!"
08/25 page 97 10.0% "OK, I'm ready for Ash's childho
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Dorcas
Jun 10, 2016 rated it it was amazing
I finished it!!!!

I'm not even going to try to summarize this, enough readers have already done so and to be honest, it's so huge, so SO HUGE that I wouldn't even know where to start. Only that it's about a man born without the comfort of national borders, trying to find where he belongs in this world, and a half caste girl, a princess, who would give her life to find it with him.

I loved it. I lived it. I feel like I've died a thousand deaths over the last two weeks reading it.

If you haven't alre
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Mela
A perfect novel. It is hard to believe but through all these pages I wasn't bored, I wasn't overwhelmed, I hadn't enough.

I will try to explain why it was so marvelous but I am sure I will fail to list all reasons.

1) A fascinating historical background.

I didn't know very much about India (especially its history and culture) and Afganistan. This book was a phenomenal journey through those countries in the second half of the XIX century. What was even greater was that not only big events were true
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Tweety
Oct 04, 2016 rated it it was amazing
I can't even think where to begin in a review for this, I barely know what to rate it. ...more
Tania
Aug 09, 2019 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: india
2.5 rounded up.
Anne
Aug 24, 2019 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Fantastic book, beautifully written and full of history as well as likeable characters and an engrossing story. M M Kaye is/was a very skilled author and I thoroughly enjoyed rereading this book after a gap of many years.
Sneezep
Aug 06, 2014 rated it it was amazing
Kim Campbell
Feb 14, 2015 marked it as to-read
Joanna
Mar 20, 2015 marked it as to-read
Eileen
Apr 03, 2015 marked it as to-read
Samanta
May 30, 2015 marked it as to-read
Kim Kaso
Aug 09, 2015 rated it liked it
Linda
Sep 17, 2015 rated it liked it
Linda Dobinson
Oct 12, 2015 marked it as to-read
Sana Souames
Jan 23, 2016 marked it as to-read
Shelves: india, m-m-kaye, i-own
Bobbie
Jun 30, 2016 marked it as to-read
Renuka
Aug 13, 2016 marked it as to-read
Anne
Feb 09, 2017 marked it as to-read
Kirsten McKenzie
May 18, 2017 rated it it was amazing
Nina
Jun 10, 2017 marked it as to-read
Shelves: fun-reads, adventure
Lime
Sep 22, 2017 rated it really liked it
Deborah
Oct 03, 2018 marked it as to-read
Veronique
Nov 26, 2019 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Infosifter
Jan 12, 2020 rated it it was amazing
Luísa Meireles
Apr 03, 2020 marked it as to-read
Kavan
May 04, 2020 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition