An insider's view of Meek's foreign affairs.

From: Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland) | Date: February 16, 2008 | Copyright information

An insider's view of Meek's foreign affairs

We Are Now beginning Our Descent

By James Meek

(Canongate Stg[pounds sterling]16.99)

Here's a novel that embraces global politics, the workings of foreign correspondents among cultures they don't understand and the machinations of the western media in such enterprises and that takes its main character from London to Afghanistan and then to the southern states of America in pursuit of an elusive woman who might give some meaning to his chaotic life.

Put like that, the narrative seems too grandiose in its ambition ...

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