Just read: The Last Friend

Am on a reading spree now! Had almost forgotten the feeling after reading a good book.
The last book I read, "The Last Friend," by Moroccon author Tahar Ben Jalloun, didn't do much to that feeling though.
A tale of a friendship tested to its limits, and told from two and a half perspectives (the neutral one is hardly a perspective), one of the greatest things about the book was that it was small!

**Spoiler Alert**
Part of my response to this tale of two friends becoming closer over the ages, and finally falling out, sort of, might be that I have been jaded by desi films, where the concept of secrets, terminal diseases, and feelings are thrown about callously.

**End of Spolier **

I liked the simple, lucid prose, and the juxtaposition of the political climate and race relations in Morocco with the simple tale of two friends.