Tarfa Ghannam Ghannam itibaren Liberdade - RO, Brazil itibaren Liberdade - RO, Brazil

This has got to be the best book I read this year. It has just the right number of pages, words and ink. Precisely to get the plot with all it's messages to the reader without any excess baggage of empty words or shallow conversations. The story is saturated with complexed ideas. So keep an open mind and delve in its realm. Even if you get depressed (that's what happened to me) in spite of the melancholy world, I was so immersed. I savored every word to its fullest. to the point where I didn't want to read it all at once. I kept reading and re-reading parts that I loved (like: their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the party, it was a political act)! I couldn't help but wonder how smart the author must've been. He keeps creating worlds parallel to our world in his novels. Imaginary. Futuristic world that was so set backed. He was foreseeing the future of communism and other similar political parties. He Never failed to get his message through even after sugar coating the whole truth. You'd bite into it and taste what the author wanted you to taste and feel what he wanted you to feel. But most importantly. To make you see and understand what he thoughts and understood. His own truth. A piece of himself has been embedded within these pages.

Cute. Very funny at times, but nowhere near Lamb. Lamb was brilliant. This was again, cute. The ending left a lot to be desired it smacked of "I don't feel like writing anymore, it's long enough right? Done." I am going to plow through his whole catalog (and Pratchett's) when I have the time to do so.