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A poignant tale

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-07-19

This is a poignant World War II fiction. The author has used a brilliant, unique narrative style which is marked by clarity. We see the story through the eyes of four different characters belonging to different countries and with different emotions chasing them. Thoroughly enjoyavle.

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Spellbinding...

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Reviewed: 09-29-19

I started reading Nora Roberts only in the past one year. She has a very wide array of plots and scenarios that I am captivated. The subtle humour and punch in the repartees between the Chief Inspector and the protaganist is so impressive and so different. It has made me rush to get more of her audiobooks.

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Nothing special

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 09-24-19

Nothing special in this story. But once again the narration by January Lavoy is masterful. I chose this book only because she is the narrator.

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Gripping...

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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 09-23-19

Initially I bought this book ONLY because January Lavoy was listed as a narrator. I love her voice, clarity, emotion and story telling. She is par excellence. As I started listening I found the presentation of the story to be very novel and original. The author has a very uncomplicatd way of presenting a wonderfully woven story. Tick marks for all aspecsts of this book.

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Disappointing

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 08-08-19

I bought this book with lots of interest. But f was very disappointed. I found it to be ordinary.

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Compelling

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5 out of 5 stars
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Reviewed: 07-21-19

I look at this novel from different angles from what I have understood or I think I have understood. To put in author's style :
1. A travel into the esoteric and mystic world of dreams where sometimes dream and reality weave around each other.
2. A young woman who seems to have lost her tether of love with her family and slowly discovers it was there all along and she could not recosgnise it.
3. A story of two friends whose lives are inter-linked through the medium of friendship and a common business intrest and how they discover hidden forces that spirals them up from depths of depression.
4. Identity crisis of immigrants in US where they can neither take the arms of the western world or leave the hands of their native world. And how when a catastrophe hits, though they stand up to their adopted country, are viewed as non-Americans by a few.
All these are crated into this story.

I was intrigued by one thing - who is the man in white who takes the mother to her death and who helps Raakhi to come out of stagnation and reclaim her creativity.
My interpretation is: The mother, like the unfortunate king in the story narrated within, has gone into a dream world of love and matrimony and taken back to her dream telling world by the man in white. Similarly, Raakhi who goes from the love-less dream world to the real world of love.
Perhaps we have to see thisnovel as a story of transformation: the dream world to be seen as a metaphorfor the space which the characters have entered bu wrong choice, wrong attitude and wrong thoughts and chastised they come back to the world of love and hope.

i HAVE TO MENTION ABOUT THE NARRATOR MS. DEEPTI GUPTA. How easily she is able to switch between the Indian accent of her mother and father to the cultivated American acccent! Superb! I was captivated by her clear pronunciation and the resonating voicce. A voice that spews forth emotions in such a wonderfully natural way. Accolades to this Narrator who lived the story.


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brilliant...

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Reviewed: 07-18-19

This is a brilliant exposition, treatise and analysis of Hinduism Unot its teachings). Being such a heayy subject, I may have to read it once more to flly comprehed. Because the author has taken great pains to dig deep into the subject and give us the purest essence on what is hinduism, how different is itfromother religion, how open the architecture is aparat frombeing welcoming, and how this type of architecture eveloped, how pereptions helped inits formation, what is Sanatana Dharma, how Sanskrit was formed as sound and vibrtion, andh how it gives power to mantras and so on. Eceptional coverage. Please don;t give this a cursory reading.

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Interesting and informative

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-14-19

The book gives a deep insight into the build-up to 9/11. The narration seems to go back and forth across dates and I felt the presentation could have been more cogent. But a book that one must read to know about the birth of a brand of terrorism and its development, the political, administrative/executive infights where security takes a beating and the pains of the innocents.

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A sense of satisfaction...

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Reviewed: 01-26-19

Many unanswered questions and mysteries nagging in our minds arising out of the ;previous eight books in the series, get answered and solved in this book, as they should be. Having traveled with and through the mind of Ben Samson and having evolved with all the characters in a natural way (I say this because the author has wonderfully portrayed the characters as they evolve and change) we know in a vague way where the story should move but the author hits hard with a final element of surprise. Ben, in spite of his seemingly action-oriented toughness is, at heart, a caring, loving and a family man. And this is emhatically driven in the conclusion where he cannot leave the girl he loved, in spite of whatever happened. I lisstened to the entire series at a stretch and there is a sense of satisfaction.

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Brilliant...

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Reviewed: 01-23-19

Brilliant writing to say the least. The sad world of spies. Their families, their love, their life. What do they know. What they don;t? What are they told? What aren;t? Are they just expendable in what is called a ;larger cause;? Life and death - are they mere statistics? I found this novel exemplary and unique in the way it is harrated. Not the mere action. But what goes on behind the senes, the planning, the practice, the preparatio, the execution and the unknown end. Tenable twits and turns with a surrising end. Being the first Le Carre novel I hae read, I have been gently and firmly driven into Le Carr;s world of books. I am sure I will be reading a lot of his books and soon.

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