“The Warden” by Anthony Trollope (3 February, 2016)

It was slow start to the book group last night with most attendees arriving late for various reasons.  There were only two of us who had actually read the book, The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, which I thought was a pity.  It’s really well written and tells its story as if a narrator is speaking to an unnamed acquaintance in a market in Lahore.  The story is of a Pakistani who’s successful in the US, falls in love with a damaged girl and ultimately turns his back on the Western way of life.  It’s set across the time of the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York and speaks of the change in US attitudes over that time.  I really enjoyed it.

The first book for next year is slightly longer than usual, Anthony Trollope’s first book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, The Warden.

This seems to be available for free from the Apple iBooks store, here’s a link.  It almost certainly available electronically elsewhere presumably because it’s out of copyright.