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Highlights
Quality
Victor longs to be one with the poor and dispossessed of the earth
The novel is intense but you come away with the understanding of human connections
Packaging/appearance
The concrete hollows lit by firelight and the blue hissing of the cookstoves
I remember seeing images on tv showing people demonstrating and stopping the wto from holding their meetings and seeing police ... Read More
Competitiveness
Wickramsinghe with all his experience and intelligence really understands his place in the world
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novel, many and first. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 226 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 31 2021.
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The main character victor is a bright itinerant biracial 19yearold who left his seattle home at age 16 after his mother died
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He has traveled the world and seen the best and worst of what it contains
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I was introduced to this novel at my library where it was featured on the cover of the monthly book magazine
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Although i am a seattle native and i lived through the wto riots working downtown and walking up during my lunch hour i had no idea of the extent of what happened or really why it was happening
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Sunil yapa has written a masterpiece of revolutionary fervor
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The book takes place in seattle on a single day in 1999 when the world trade organization came to town to hold its ministerial conference
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Massive street protests ensued with protesters targeting the intersections near the conference center where the delegates planned to meet
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As a result of the protests the conference was postponed until the next day more than a 150 people were arrested without probable cause police overtime and vandalism of nearby buildings cost the city millions of dollars and the term antiglobalization became part of the public dialogue
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