The flying time between KL to Tokyo was about 7 hours. Pakdokter managed to finish this book written by an Iranian writer, Marsha Mehran. It is the story of three sisters who emigrated to UK after Khomeini's revolution and set up the popular Iranian restaurant in one little village in Ireland. Although not quite the type of book pakdokter enjoys, pakdokter managed to finish it during the flight as it was quite short and easy to read.
What registered most in pakdokter's mind was the few 'recipes' of Iranian food which made pakdokter long to visit one of the many Iranian restaurants when back in KL. And Ireland was potrayed in the book as being very 'conservative' - but then the setting was in an Irish village and the period was in the early 80's.
Pakdokter is planning a 'golfing' holiday of Ireland in the summer of next year. That was also a reason why this book was picked up at the book-store.
On the return flight home from Tokyo to KL via Kota Kinabalu, pakdokter read the book below which was bought in a second hand book shop in Tokyo. As good as new, this book costs only 500 yen ( RM18). Some books in the second hand book shop cost only 100 yen (RM3.7). And the books are all as good as new!
Re-cycling is big business and is a 'culture' in Japan.
Pakdokter thoroughly enjoyed Kazuo Ishiguro. This is a collection of 5 short stories with the central theme of music and night time. Ishiguro's style is reminiscent of Harukami's combined with the psychology of Woody Allen.
A great read.
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