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Title: over-wrought, over-interpreted, over-rated
Review: A real page turner that doesn't hold up to scrutiny. It relies too much on coincidence. Also, the author doesn't trust the readers enough to draw their own conclusions. Rather, the author amateurishly tells us how to interpret the scenes. (Note for example how many times the narrator ends the chapter with some prophetic line like, "This was the last time I would laugh because my world was soon turned inside out").The climactic scene in which the author liberates the son of his friend from the clutches of the mein-kampf-reading villain is laughable. Of all the houseboys in Afghanistan to sodomize, how likely is it that he would seize upon the son of his childhood victim? Or that, in the fracas, the narrator would receive his own hair-lip? And if you didn't get the symbolic wounding, the author feels compelled to point out that now he, too, has his own scar. p-lease.
