The trope of the terrorist and the "good", patriotic Muslim, found in the same family, grates all the more because it is such a cliche in an otherwise subtle and layered novel
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In 1987, Grass and his wife came to Calcutta for the staging of one of his plays, The Plebeians Rehearse The Uprising. He made fast friends among the city's writers