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Kecia
Aug 12, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Ram Karan is a miserable human being, and yet Sharma portrays him in such a way that the reader can actually feel some sympathy for him. He's a not a totally bad person - he saves the lives of a Sikh family and is rather humble about the experience. He loves his children and grandchildren but cannot control his impulses. And he knows what he does is wrong but is unable to stop himself. All of this combines to paint a very moving and vivid portrait of an awful person.

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