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Title: Complex and Compelling!
Review: I read this book for a graduate course in global English literature. It was one of the more enjoyable reads in that class. The novel is set in India and Pakistan both before and after Partition. It deals with the effects that Partition had on the cities of Calcutta and Dhaka. Ghosh's prose is clear and lucid. Told from the perspective of a young child, the novel has a lot to do with the power of story-telling and the connection of story-telling to identity. Ghosh addresses the issues of nationalism and transnationalism and of borders (both real and imagined). He forces the reader to deal with the connections between nationalism and violence.
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