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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
A warning - those who have some familiarity with India may find this book's style VERY irritating. I dropped it after a lengthy conversation early in the book between a group of Farsis explaining how each of them got their "wala" surnames. REALLY clunky exposition and insulting both to the readers and the characters, it simply would not happen.
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I have been to India several times, and that point was lost on me. Oh well...
(It's Parsee rather than Farsi, I believe?)