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A review by kassiani
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
3.5
Well written and the historical case was interesting but overall I struggled to really get into it (very analytical and descriptive at the default of emotional depth).
The author writes George as quite clueless and naive, as if not realizing for a while that he’s the victim of racism, and white people have to explain it to him.
The novel is told from the points of view of both Arthur Conan Doyle and George Edalji, the half-Indian solicitor who was wrongfully convicted of the "Great Wyrley Outrages", a series of animal mutilations in a rural area & on judicial structural issues needing reforms.
The author writes George as quite clueless and naive, as if not realizing for a while that he’s the victim of racism, and white people have to explain it to him.
The novel is told from the points of view of both Arthur Conan Doyle and George Edalji, the half-Indian solicitor who was wrongfully convicted of the "Great Wyrley Outrages", a series of animal mutilations in a rural area & on judicial structural issues needing reforms.