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Title: painful yet enduring
Review: If ever a book was in dire need of a strong editor, this is it! Without any editorial experience I could easily slash a good half of this book. But it is the other half that kept me at it. I purchased the book because of the promise of the story within. And the underlying story is wonderful. But Thackara really needs to get over himself! A lot of the writing is utter conceit, literary posturing to be expected from a high school literature teacher/frustrated novelist, not from someone who actually got these 800 pages published. Too bad. It could easily have been a really great book.
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