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RELEASE NOTES:

sending to morsecode

This book arrived safe and sound today.
A wishlist book courtesy of the sleone as part of the "Cliff1976 Wish List reverse book relay".
Thanks so much!

I can understand why this book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. I'm amazed, though, that this was the authors debut novel. What an achievement!
Ali explores universal themes on a very personal level. The driving force of the novel, the protagonist, Nazneen, is fully realized and sympathetic.
The novel has a certain weight and urgency, which makes it all the more readable.
The novel seems to drag at times, but I guess that is to be expected in literary fiction.

This is one of my favorite passages:
"How had it happened? It was as if she had woken one day to find that she had become a collector, guardian of a great archive of secrets, without the faintest knowledge of how she had got started or how her collection has grown" (313).
I also loved the ending.

I'm planning to put this in a book box that is on its way to me now.

I'm putting this is Abbynormal92243's wish list book box 2 for titihood since it is on his/her wishlist. Enjoy!

Removed from Abbynormal92243's Wishlist Bookbox #2.

titihood had asked to be skipped. The strange thing is that I recently had to pass up a bookring for this very book (which was on my wishlist too).

Once I've read it, I will see if titihood is still interested in this book.