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The Embassy Of Cambodia: Short Story (2013)

by Zadie Smith(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

newyorker.com

review 1: This story is packaged like a tiny book. And at only 69 pages, it's a fast read. But it's an interesting read. Told from the viewpoint of a nameless, faceless narrator who lives in a quiet, well-to-do neighbourhood, it tells the story of Fatou, a woman working in a thankless job for a South Asian family just down the street from the embassy of the story's title. I was allowed glance into her very small world, and the few pleasures she gets from an otherwise miserable, constricting life. But I was rooting for her, right to the end. Worth a read if you have an hour (or less) to spare.
review 2: "A tap runs fast the first time you switch it on.""The fact is if we followed the history of every little country in this world - in its dramatic as well as its quiet tim... morees - we would have no space left in which to live our own lives or to apply ourselves to our necessary tasks, never mind indulge in occasional pleasures, like swimming. Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?"Genius. less

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