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Originally Posted by saliotthomas
Counry of men -Hisham Matar
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I read
In The Country Of Men two years back when it was longlisted - and then shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. If ever there was a book I didn't want to win, it was that. My main grumble was that it had an adult narrator recalling his childhood, but the narrative tone was that of a child's. There was nothing to suggest the adult had a child's mind. Therefore it just came along as
wrong. That, and it wasn't all that interesting, like it was one of those books looking behind the curtain of a nation riding on the coat tails of Khaled Hosseini's
The Kite Runner, itself an unexciting book.
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Mark Helprin - City in Winter
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This rings a bell. I think it may have been listed in the
NY Times best fiction of the last twenty-five years. And, hurrying off to look it up, I see it was called
Winter's Tale.