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A walk too short

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Generally Survivor stories have a charm that usually attracts me to them. That is how I landed in this book. This definitely has a charm and keeps you turning the pages. The story is definitely incredible. I am fine with the book and the interest it had gathered in the past considering this definitely as an interesting narration for a fiction, for a specific audience. However, when it is projected as a real life experience, I have certain apprehensions. First of all, what one notices is, this is told with a motive devoid of any personalization of People, Location and their Nativity. Even the Landscapes are glazed over without any particular detail. Intially, it was not that much noticeable when it went over the Siberian Snows, possibly because my connect with the landscape and its people is limited to those books I have read, which is woefully thin. Slowly when it moves across the Mangolian Plain and the Gobi desert, I feel a sense of unease slowly seeping in, as the narration brings p