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TIME'S readers, however, also have a right to know whether or not the reviewer read the book . . . He refers to the two leading characters of the book as "Kristina" and "her daughter, Countess Zia" . . . He need only have gone as far as page 11 to find out this basic fact: the book is primarily the story of two daughters of Count Dukay, Kristina and Zia...
...secret agent in World War I; her scurryings around in Parisian underthings, waving secret documents, make Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd look like a timid traveler in an old suit of B.V.D.s. When Kristina collapses into the arms of Spain's Alfonso XIII, her sister, Countess Zia, takes over for the between-wars decades. When at last, after more than 700 pages, Hitler and the Russians start divvying up what's left of the Dukay world, many a reader may feel an unreasonable sense of relief...
...Indian painting, were mostly bright, flat watercolors of tribal life and lore, like the prizewinning Dakota Duck Hunt by a Dakota Sioux named Oscar Howe. Jemez Indian José Rey Toledo entered a thoroughly detailed illustration of the sacred Zuñi Shalako dance, but Ma-Pe-Wi, a Zia Pueblo, forbidden by his tribe to paint ceremonials, contented himself with a cocktail-bar rendering of a buffalo hunt...
Sartip Riza marched with supreme bold ness on Teheran and such was the Army's disgust with do-nothing Ahmed Shah that a few hours of quiet maneuvering turned the trick as whole battalions went over to Publisher Saiyid Zia-ud-Din's revolution. Not long after the publisher found he had made the mistake of his life. The upstart Sartip had got himself appointed Minister of War and the publisher was exiled to Baghdad. Two years passed while brooding Riza Khan intrigued, cajoled and bribed among the military, forcing his deep plans and domineering power to triumph...
Tales of treasure-hunting, of Tomacito, a New Mexican Thumbling, of drunken burros, spice the book. More sombre are the tales of disappearing Amerindian tribes and customs, but they are stoically told. The Zia Indians, in their decay, became so poverty-stricken, so skinny, that other Indians called them the "hungry ones." The "hungry ones" called back: "Fat Indians dance slowly...