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The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese - Sep 25 Theme BOM - South and South East Asia (Starts 5 September)
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I tried really hard to like this one, but I ultimately found it fairly dull and didn't understand the point. The Biblical re-telling was more interesting than the Russian literary plot in my opinion.
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No writer can be this imaginative.
Somewhere between fable and a Russian version of Catch 22? Greed and corruption don't care if you are an atheist or not, they still are the devil's work or something like that.
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No doubt this is a brilliant satirical allegory, but I found it very hard going & didn't enjoy it much at all. I can't begin to contemplate or truly understand what the author experienced living through these times. For insight I had to turn to Kris's review - thanks Kris. ...more
No doubt this is a brilliant satirical allegory, but I found it very hard going & didn't enjoy it much at all. I can't begin to contemplate or truly understand what the author experienced living through these times. For insight I had to turn to Kris's review - thanks Kris. ...more
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