It is a story of two Afghani women(Mariam and Laila) to exemplify the status of women in Afghanistan spanning 3 decades --starting from soviet invasion then mujaheddin fight after that Taliban take over and finally US invasion(to find Osama).The first part of the book starts with introducing a littl...
This book, literally, blew me away.I never wanted to pick it up. I never wanted to immerse myself into this culture (again, because I read The Kite Runner and it was good, but not the same as this) and I never wanted to learn anything else about the Afghanistan situation.Man, was I too stupid and pr...
This book definitely left an indelible impression on me. It really helped me understand Afghanistan's tragic history (the revolutions, Soviet invasion, the Taliban) and also how religion can be used to control people. Mariam and Laila's sisterhood was wonderful to me; the fact that they joined force...
First, this usually isn't my kind of book. In fact I picked it up a bit begrudgingly because it was for book club. It sat around a week, maybe two before I actually started reading. But, but...The lives of these two girls who became women held me in a tight fisted grip. The story flows easily while ...
I put off reading this book for what seemed to me a long time, largely due to my belief that it would pale in comparison to The Kite Runner. I was wrong. This is an incredibly beautiful and sad story that quietly unfolds in your heart. Khaled Hosseini is uncommonly gifted in his abilty to put the re...
This is a poignant story about (primarily) the lives of two Afghan women in the late 20th/early 21st century. Others have discussed the plot, so I'll just mention the reasons this one has stuck with me (I first read it when it came out a couple years ago). Most important is Hosseini's ability to con...
I've heard people rave about Hosseini's books, both the Kite Runner and this one. And while I haven't read the Kite Runner, I can honestly say that this one deserves the praise. My copy had 387 pages and the story never once seemed to drag. I immediatley felt connected to Mariam. From a young age, s...
I felt this was just a female version of the kite runner with pretty much the same concept: the story of unlikely yet great friendship and the sacrifices made for it... I was disappointed, not necessarily because it was so bad, but perhaps because the kite runner was so much better, in my opinion, t...
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