Christine (luvmygem) - reviewed on 4/1/2009 + 86 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

I wanted to like this more than I did. I've never read 'Lolita', and I didn't feel I was lost because of my lack of reading it, but rather it was as if something was lost in translation...but the author does speak English. Hard to explain, but I kept waiting for "something" to happen - I felt that some hugely dramatic twist was being foreshadowed but it never really came to fruition.

I'm glad I read it - It is an eye-opening story into the lives of these women. While it made me appreciate the fact that I live here in the USA, it also reminded me that people in such repressed countries are still people, and they have more in common with me than I would have expected.

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