Udita Sanga's Reviews > Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

When I picked up the book, I expected to read more about children's plight in Nepal, about the author's motivation to work with these children, and details of how he made it happen. The book was a disappointment in both content and style. I read in much detail about the author himself (and how he saw the third world/ dealt with living as an expat in Nepal) and his infatuation with his pen pal whom he later proposed. The book revolved solely around the author and his love story with the children providing the exotic backdrop which made the plot more fanciful- It left me curiously dissatisfied and annoyed with the author specially when he writes things like - " Perhaps the strangest feeling of all was seeing children, so many of them with glowing white skin, that unfortunate translucent paleness that I shared. After months of rich, brown skin of a thousand shades, it looked like these children had been bleached."
As a person with brown skin, I found such description disturbing. Children are beautiful, brown or white. Its unfair to be derogatory to either. The book ironically , was only skin deep, and failed to move me beyond anything deeper.