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Book review: Two Years Eight Months And Twenty-Eight Nights, Salman Rushdie
The tone of Salman Rushdie's latest novel is like a chocolate with a nut centre, beguilingly sweet on the outside but with a hard core.
The tone of Salman Rushdie's latest novel is like a chocolate with a nut centre, beguilingly sweet on the outside but with a hard core.
The typically demotic title introduces three world-soiled siblings, children of a dangerously attractive and totally untrustworthy refugee from Nazism who's credited with making New Zealand aware of real coffee and really modern buildings.
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The menu is comprehensive, with breakfast available from 8am-3pm from the self-pronounced "purveyors of all things yummy".
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