Finally I read it!... At first this book did not invoke any curiosity it was more like one sided perspective of things...honestly first few chapters seemed irrelevant, and not interesting enough to continue reading ,
however halfway through the book writer started to make sense.... and his description of place and people got more real....especially the part where he writes about Europe, his expressions are more nicer and sweet, may be due to his brought up in USA, his perspective always appeared of an outsiders for Pakistan, and only the things shocking to him he considered worth mentioning,.... he totally skipped the real people , living in cities... average lives, average people... he just got caught in the feudal part of the system... and he is not to blame for it too, it is a big part of our reality, any one who experienced a fairer and civilized system can not ignore the disparity of it all ....
Where his expression is lot more lead by his soft spot for West and especially America.... his critical point of view is only limited to Pakistani society,..... if you talk about morality and values, west have lost its hard earned value system too, and it is not hard to ignore the decline...may be in his next book, he can throw some light on that too.
I think book is a good effort for a starter, as a dialogue and identity search for Pakistan ,book consists more on observations or sketches as characters ...Although I do see lots of stories sprouting in between , however it may need another attempt to bring out the stories from his characters..
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