Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A Gem of a Book

It's a shame this book was published by a university press that gave it such a dull academic-sounding title. The story you'll find within its pages is a wonderful eye-opening memoir that takes you deep into daily life in a tiny village in Nepal back in the 1970s--when the traditional way of life had not yet succumbed to the forces of globalization.The author does what the best authors of memoirs do--she allows herself to become almost a transparent vehicle for you, the reader. You experience at a strange and exotic world peering through her eyes and reading her vivid descriptions. She keeps her analysis to a minimum but shows you enough that you can draw your own conclusions.When I was done reading this book, the people she had described seemed so real to me it was hard to believe I hadn't met them myself.Honest, authentic, and completely without the pretentious literary tone that ruins so many current memoirs. A great book!