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A month ago I met a Norwegain woman who works in Pakistan. I told her about my world reading project and asked her about book suggestions from Pakistan. A few days later I received an email from Peshawar, she was back there by then, where she recommended several books, among them A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie. Shamsie was born and grew up in Pakistan, now living in the UK.
I just finished the book (it took me a long time), a book which I at times found hard to read, difficult to understand. I think there are several reasons for that. The main one being that the history of Pakistan is almost unknown to me and this made it hard to follow the plot. Another reason is that the story is kind of hard to follow anyway as it is set in two different times, about 15 years apart, and new people are intruduced throughout the book and people you get to know in the start, believing that they will be important for the plot, seem to disappear, making me wonder why they were there in the first place.
Still, it has been an interesting read. A book where a British young woman, Vivian Rose Spencer is the main character, and the only one who is there thoughout the whole book. Mrs. Spencer is in ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus. Did she find the temple in the end? I must confess I have no idea.
This world reading project is meant to teach me about the world, and A God in Every Stone has introduced me to a part of Pakistan´s history. A bloody part.