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...Yorker film critic David Denby writes book blasting snark. Whatevs...
...need to make a movie out of the book. We are living it right now.' DAVID KELLEY, president of the Atlas Society, on rumors that Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's novel about excessive government intervention, will be adapted as a feature film...
...There is a narrative of sorts that emerges from Butterfly's solipsistic musing, but the book's greatest triumph is her voice, a pitch-perfect mixture of malaprop subcontinental English and the colloquial Urdu spoken by her class - perhaps the most authentic example of what Salman Rushdie has termed the "chutnification" of the English language. Mohsin's ear is preternaturally tuned to the exactness of its hilarious cadences, idiosyncrasies and reinventions ("bore-bore countries," "spoil spots," "what cheeks!"). There's hardly a sentence in the book that doesn't contain them...
...book is being talked of as a kind of subcontinental Bridget Jones's Diary but Mohsin's extraordinary achievement in exploiting the contrapuntal irony in the gap between the private and the public gives it a political depth that aligns it more closely to Rushdie's novel of Pakistan, Shame. This is a wildly entertaining anthology, but beware: it also bites...
...longs for more substance on these points. Thankfully, his rearview vision is far more fleshed out. As a look at China's entrepreneurial economy in the 1980s and 1990s - and as a counterpoint to the common misconception that China is steadily evolving into a more market-oriented economy - this book is unparalleled...