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| | salon :: :: books :: review :: "Moth Smoke" by Mohsin Hamid, By Sudip Bose :: Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Daru, an intellectual wastrel, has a kind of underworld existence; unable to afford electricity or air conditioning, he lives alone in sweltering darkness. |
 | | Daru is wracked by devastating hunger, for food and drugs as well as for the radiant Mumtaz. |
 | | When Daru isn't speaking, the prose tends to the flamboyant, with overworked metaphors and relentless punning, adding up to a bad Salman Rushdie impersonation. |
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