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Reviewed on September 15, 2010
This new work by Dasgupta (Tokyo Cancelled) is two novels in one book. The first, Life, follows precocious Bulgarian chemist Ulrich, who cannot outrun his country's decline and so must suffer with it; the second, Daydreams, shows us a "better" world imagined by Ulrich in which talented and ambitious youth—Khatuna and Boris, mainly—can escape the uncertainty of a post-Communist cult...Log In or Sign Up to Read More