Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns


Just as good (this good) as the Kite Runner. It talks about the cruelties of war to the women of Afghanistan.

Hosseini writes in a way that triggers empathy from the readers. You would not help but feel terror and detestation because of what they do to the Afghan women. He vividly describes how, if you are a woman who lived in Afghanistan, it would be much better to be lifeless than live in a pitiless world.

He reveals the hell that these women had lived in by narrating the two tales of two women, Mariam and Laila, and how their lives intersect. Mariam and Laila are two different women, yet both experienced how the world in war could be so unkind.

This is very carefully-made, I shall say. Unlike the first book, this has no unnecessary coincidences. Just factual and straight.


Read it! Read it!

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