Title: A decent first attempt
Product review: "Moth Smoke" isn't bad for a first novel, and the premise is interesting enough-- the Mughal fratricides that Pakistan appears to be re-living, in just about every sense of the word, including (but not limited to) the fratricidal nature of relations with India. There is at times a suggestively cinematic quality to the book's structure (e.g. the interludes, set in the present), though I don't think these work as well as the author would like them to. Ultimately, the book is emotionally "thin," and doesn't begin to fill the grand historical trappings its author has laid out.
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