Kanishk Tharoor

Tharoor's prose is the most purely beautiful I've read in a long time, and aside from the technical, he has sharp insight into the heart. This is, I think, the best book I've read all year. His settings are, somehow, both non-specific (often unnamed or nameless countries) and incredibly vivid, and he creates his worlds with a few confident strokes. I can't do this justice. I cried a lot of cathartic tears.

("This exhausted her and offered her further proof, as if she needed it, that while an exile can escape her country, she can never escape her exile.")… (mehr)