author: Hanif Kureishi
name: Kim
average rating: 2.75
book published: 2014
rating: 2
read at: 2018/12/01
date added: 2018/12/01
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review:
Well written – but kind of pointless
I came to this book from listening to its charming and eloquent author at the Ubud Writers and Readers festival, thinking I’d learn something new about “the human condition”. I left it an hour later (the time it takes to read it) feeling none the wiser, a bit cheated. The revelations – as they were – arrived in the first few paragraphs, to be regurgitated again and again without much additional insight. An hour lost, a lot less significant than the fortune lost by the author and the life of the protagonist.
