The thing that hit me most about the book is the raw emotion of women and the brutalities that a man can impose. The trauma of everyday life amidst a strife torn Afghanistan alongwith mundane routines of skinning fish and cleaning beans, rearing children, experiencing nostalgic joys of a once beautiful land and learning to live with the present day trauma..very vivid yet disturbing.
All of us know the facts..its in the news and around us...yet its another land, another world....
Khaled Hosseni really touches upon those little trivia in everyday life which we hardly consider important, but must treat as blessings.
Lovely book..n if one has loved The Kite Runner...this one too is a gem...and leaves you entwined with the lives of Mariam n Laila long after the book is back on the shelf.
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