The Dying Day

By Vaseem Khan

Book Overview

A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles. Bombay, 1950 For over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy of Dante's The Divine Comedy, has been... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529341051
• ISBN13: 9781529341058
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 1.2" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

Worst Book I've Read This Year.

This book might have been a fairly good read were it not for the fact that the progression of the plot is constantly and repetitively interrupted while Khan indulges in a rant or ten about colonialism or the British or white people, or all three combined. It is distracting and wholly unnecessary. The denoument is long, muddy, and wandering, and let's face it: the character of Persis is unpleasant and unlikeable, making it difficult to maintain particular sympathy or even interest in her (too) many hangups.