Title: A first novel about drugs...how original!
Product review: This novel has been writen many, many times before. It's the same wannabe-Paul Bowles style that 80's never-heard-from-again first novelists like McInerney and Easton Ellis practiced, and that Alex Garland writes now. If the novel didn't take place in Pakistan, it would never have been published.So, is it so wonderfully evocative of Pakistan that you should overlook the obvious plot and writing? Not at all. To hear the author tell it, Lahpre is just like Manhatten. And it isn't. This is for the same people who took 'The Beach' too seriously Airport ..., marketed as important.
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