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A review by katykelly
The Embassy of Cambodia by Zadie Smith
4.0
Would have loved to read more of this.
This short story isn't really at all about the embassy, anyone who goes in there, anything that happens there.
It's about a woman who passes the embassy each week on the way to a swimming pool, using her employer's guest pass. Fatou is an unpaid overworked cleaner/childcarer who is just trying to survive. The 69 short pages barely scratch the surface on her life, there is scope for much more.
Hard to review such a short tale but did enough reading it and the quality of Smith's writing.
This short story isn't really at all about the embassy, anyone who goes in there, anything that happens there.
It's about a woman who passes the embassy each week on the way to a swimming pool, using her employer's guest pass. Fatou is an unpaid overworked cleaner/childcarer who is just trying to survive. The 69 short pages barely scratch the surface on her life, there is scope for much more.
Hard to review such a short tale but did enough reading it and the quality of Smith's writing.