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Sunday, October 25, 2015

Breaking Faith: A Novel of Espionage and an American’s Crisis of Conscience in Pakistan, by Graham E. Fuller

http://grahamefuller.com/middle-east-journal-reviews-my-novel-about-pakistan-breaking-faith/
Breaking Faith: A Novel of Espionage and an American’s Crisis of Conscience in Pakistan, by Graham E. Fuller. Bozorg Press, 2015. 484 pages. $18.95 paper. 
Middle East Journal, Fall 2015
Reviewed by Marvin and Francine Weinbaum 
A successful political novel seamlessly intertwines fiction and nonfiction. Nonfiction provides the author with rich materials from which to fashion a strong narrative. Its characters and story line can acquire greater verisimilitude by being set in identifiable life situations and historical context. Fiction provides the literary license that allows for more vivid description than can expository writing alone. Through dialogue it is possible for the author to capture the intensities with which ideas and values are held and a deeper understanding of political attitudes, motivation and misperceptions. All this Graham Fuller does admirably in Breaking Faith. http://grahamefuller.com/middle-east-journal-reviews-my-novel-about-pakistan-breaking-faith/

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