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Beautifully out of sync

Beautifully out of sync: All the Lives We Never Lives reviewed

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  • All the Lives We Never Lived

    Anuradha Roy

    MacLehose, pp. 336

‘Myshkin’ wants ‘a tiding ending’ to his life and has settled down to write his will. An ageing Indian horticulturalist, his childhood nickname (after Dostoevsky’s protagonist in The Idiot) remains. It is the first sign that this is a novel about people out of sync with their times and their surroundings.

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David Patrikarakos
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David Patrikarakos is the author of 'War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century' and 'Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State'

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