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This may be figuratively true, but it belies the painstaking political storytelling of her novel, which is highly attentive to ideological distinctions.
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Ten years ago, Beltway political watchers were gripped by a bawdy novel called "Primary Colors, " the story of a philandering presidential candidate from a Southern state, Jack Stanton, and his icy wife.
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The political menace that has been seething throughout the novel finally explodes.
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Earlier this month, the novel, which deals with the personal and political aftermath of India's independence, won the Best of the Booker prize.
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By the way, ten years ago one of Yulia Tymoshenko's political aides contacted me and asked me to write a novel about her with the title "Kill Yulia".
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As a boy, Mr Mabanckou was fascinated by the dandies who returned from Paris obsessed with brand names, but the novel lampoons the idea of tailoring as a political statement.
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The vivid visual portrayal of what such a device could do in the hands of terrorists (changed in a remarkable sop to Hollywood's political correctness from the Islamist cell of the original Clancy novel to a polyglot Fascist conspiracy) made the astrological forecast unsettling, to say the least.
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The novel provides an emotional portrait of the Vietnam War, which has largely been written about from a political perspective.
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He said casting historical and political figures, who are known to the audience, is different from putting a face to a character from a novel.
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