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The fashion for ethnic books is still on, but not all this books are good. If you don't love what I write, you will burn in hell.
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Wat mij het meeste aan dit verhaal zal bijblijven zijn de ratten, torren, termieten, muggen, muizen, schorpioenen. Het boek beweegt, sopt, vreet, trippelt en krioelt ervan. Daarnaast geeft het een hele mooie beschrijving van het leven in een dorpje in de Himalaya en van een illegale immigrant in de VS. Guerrilastrijders halen het kabbelende bestaan van een gepensioneerde rechter en zijn kleindochter overhoop en de zoon van de kok komt er in Amerika achter dat het illegale leven in de VS niet te
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Loved the book. Kiran Desia is very talented in painting pictures with her words. You can feel India when you read it. (If never been in that part of India but the way she describes it is how I remember India). It's messy and beautiful, funny and complicated, violent and tender.
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