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A vivid and imaginative world that you won't want to leave
I am just now finishing this book and am so sad that it is ending. The characters are thoroughly unique, the story exciting, romantic and thought-provoking. What interests me as well, is the history behind this imaginative story - to think that many of the events portrayed really happened, and that the fragile, beautiful world portrayed is now gone forever. Even though the time the story takes place was long ago, the struggles the characters face are relevant today - after all, like the main character, Ash, people still struggle to answer "What is fairness?", "What is my history?", "Where do I belong?", "how do I go my own way, love whomever I love, and truly be myself when others around me don't want me to?" Even though this book seemed large at first, I don't want it to end and wish it could go on and on.

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A masterpiece!
I first read this book when I was about 14. It is truly one of the most unforgettable pieces of literature I have ever come across. It made me fall in love with India. It is, without a doubt, my favorite book. I have recommended it to friends many times. It will appeal to someone who loves romance novels, or action-adventure, or exotic locations. M.M.Kaye has managed to put so much of the essence of what India really was into this book that it transports you back in time to the days when she was an untamed creature fighting against British imperialism.

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One of the best books
People, if you read the back of this book, it is not just another bad romance novel, it is basically the life story of an Anglo-Indian (an Englishman born in India) named Ashton Pelham-Martin, brought up to think that he was a native of the country by his surrogate mother, Sita after his mother died giving birth to him and his father died of (malaria?). The romance does not come in till halfway through the novel, and it does not interfere with the narrative. Events come and go, and just as you think everything that has to happen happened, you look at where you reach in the novel and you think "so much to read again? What happens now?" The pace slows considerably at some point in the second half, but picks up very rapidly close to the end with the Afghan wars. A must-read for die-hard Indians and non-Christian-supremacists.