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This book was not for me.
Balram hears that high up Chinese politician will visit his home of Bangalore to learn more about the economic successes in India especially with the outsourcing of call centers. Balram decides to write him and tell the true story of business or entrepreneurship in India telling his story from his start as a promising student in a school where the teachers snoozes and steals more often than teaching and justifies it by the lack of salary to working in a tea shop, then really making it as a drive
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*shrug* Eh. Whatever. Not fantastic.
I did not "get" this book. It never engaged me as a story nor did it have "the ring of truth". This story felt fanciful and more like a dream or nightmare than a reality. I do not understand why it won a book award.
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Ligia Lesko
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