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Books: An absence of ephemera James Thackara's ambitious and weighty novel has a gaping hole at its heart, concludes Bill Saunders
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The Book of Kings
by James Thackara
DUCKWORTH pounds 19.99
It is perhaps an unintended irony that this ambitious novel opens
on the day England won the World Cup. Since this football match is
the jewel through which much of our sense of history is refracted,
the allusion sets out the distance between the author's serious
intent and the "two world wars and one world cup" school of history.
Unfortunately, irony is not James Thackara's strong suit.
The spirit in wh...
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