Zge Gen Gen থেকে Kurak, Pakistan
3 and a half stars really but there were some problems with the characterisation. The narrator's voice was very British but still much too much a generic character rather than anyone British who we could meet. I felt that the experience was meant to show us how diminished he was by the experience (and how boring his fiancee must be to be attracted enough to wish to marry him). The other characters, because decsribed by the narrator, were second hand and not well defined. The main subject was Moscow and Russia itself which was made real and fascinating to me. The depth of opportunism portrayed was eye opening but not surprising and by the end I felt that there was nothing that stood between kindness and greed there - difficult to take on board for the 21st century.