A review by scottishben
Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan

2.0

This is a book I would not have finished were I not trying to read a book from a writer from every country. It is not that this has nothing to recommend it. The idea of writing a book about temporary workers is a great one and there are moments of greatness here.

I am not usually a fan of the sort of George Saunders esque magical realism and this is full of it. About a quarter of the time it works really well for me but the rest I bounced off. Weaknesses in charactorisation and just general writing also got in the way.

Some parts were really memorably good. But there were a lot of times I winced.