Sunday, August 04, 2013

K.M.Kaung's mini review of Joseph Anton - Salman Rushdie's memoir -

Oh, it is excellent - although written in 3rd person, somehow he manages to recall all the trauma and details of the fatwa period - and is completely honest in what he says about himself. It is amazing that he lived to tell the story and also managed to live a somewhat normal life through it all. Also the "normal" deaths among his close ones, while he under a fatwa survived.

Has the unerring eye and total recall of a born writer.

Kyi May Kaung

Oh--my big mistake--The White Countess was written by Nobel Laureate

Kazao Ishiguru, whom I met once at a book signing in Philadelphia, way back in the 1990s. And it's not Liam Neeson--it's Ralph Fien...