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Rigzin, February 16, 2007

I bought this novel off the streets of Thamel after I heard that it created quite a stir in the peaceful Himalayan town of Kalimpong where this second novel by Kiran Desai is mostly set, at times moving to the streets of New York city. Nothing like her previous novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard which was comical, this novel set against the backdrop of the Nepalese insurgency in and around Kalimpong depicts how lives of the ordinary people are thrown into turmoil. However the protrayal of people of Nepalese descent didn't go well with the Kalimpong folks that there were even book-burning threats. I am from Nepal but here people were not that sensitive to the issue. Anyways it is a worthwhile read, worthy of the Man Booker Prize it was bestowed upon.

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