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Kaut kas īpašs ir tūkstošgades pirmās desmitgades romānos. Varbūt pēdējās izsāpētās skumjas par aizejošo laikmetu.
5/23/2011: This is a great novel and I hated it. It achieves its aim brilliantly--which is (I think) to make me feel miserable, guilty, and queasy, all through (and despite?) the blithely charming tone of the narrator. Changez (note the name) is an articulate and intelligent young Pakistani man, and the novel is his tale of his metamorphosis from a Pakistani trying to live the American dream to a "reluctant fundamentalist". He does this in an uninterrupted monologue, which he is supposedly telli
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