Showing Title: The Hero with a Thousand Eyes A Historical Novel by Karma Ura

The book concerns a fictional minister of Bhuatan, born in the 1930's and serving under three different kings. This isn't so much a story as a historical narrative of Bhutanese political and culture life from that period until the late 70's. The main character isn't very interesting or likeable. He works hard, he sleeps with married women, he has his dad pull strings to get the woman divorced and married to him, then he repeats with another woman. Most of the book isn't concerned with the main character as much as the work he does and the speeches he listens to or gives, most of which involve exciting concepts like inventory and royal administration. The author devotes - I kid you not - an entire chapter to the discussion of tax reform in the 1950's, as well as several other chapters to "state of the union" style speeches that are probably accurate to real ones given in that time but weren't even interesting to the people actually there to hear them.