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The narrator, Bo, is a middle-aged diplomat somewhat disenchanted with his life, who finds himself, stationed in
Bangladesh in 1973, reconstructing the life of his childhood friend Tommie. After they got reacquainted at a class reunion, Tommie drowned himself in the
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on the way. The novel combines the three plotlines of Bo's account of his friendship with Tommie and his work in
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in 1982. The novel is one of the author's most popular and was
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