Here’s another review from the Shadow Man Asian Literary Prize team: Fay at Read, Ramble has read Valley Of Masks by Tarun J Tejpal, longlisted for the 2011 award. I haven’t got a copy of this one yet but it sounds like a rather confronting work…
Posted by: Lisa Hill | November 27, 2011
Valley of Masks #1 by Tarun J Tejpal (Shadow Man Asian Literary Prize 2011)
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It has been quite some time since i read a novel, but all the reviews on Tejpal’ ‘Valley of Masks’ sound promising. So i have reserved some time to read this interesting novel.
By: tom on November 27, 2011
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