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A lovely collection of lives the separate, unite, and reunite through a moderate span of time. I enjoyed witnessing the progression of Afghanistan through different points of view.
Coincidentally, just as I finished this book, bbc.com posted a collection of photos and video taken by an American engineer in Afghanistan to help build a dam and an airport: www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28660217 ...more
Coincidentally, just as I finished this book, bbc.com posted a collection of photos and video taken by an American engineer in Afghanistan to help build a dam and an airport: www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28660217 ...more
I couldn't decide whether to give this three or four stars. I liked it just fine - even shed a tear or too on the last page - but it just didn't grab me the way that I like a good book to. I found myself wishing for all of the things that it didn't give me.
The rotating perspectives were fascinating and I think they were well-suited to the text's concern with the ripple effects of life. It certainly felt as though the text began with a single point of eruption, and then everything that followed ...more
The rotating perspectives were fascinating and I think they were well-suited to the text's concern with the ripple effects of life. It certainly felt as though the text began with a single point of eruption, and then everything that followed ...more
Powerful, heartbreaking and beautiful.
I loved this book and cried like a baby in the end. I don't have anything to compare it to as this is the first Khaled Hosseini book I've read but I thoroughly enjoyed his style of writing.
This novel feels like a bunch of short stories with most chapters tying into other characters from previous chapters. The exception to this is the Bashiri Brothers/Roshi and Markos/Thalia- I'm still not really sure what the point was of telling these characters stories a ...more
I loved this book and cried like a baby in the end. I don't have anything to compare it to as this is the first Khaled Hosseini book I've read but I thoroughly enjoyed his style of writing.
This novel feels like a bunch of short stories with most chapters tying into other characters from previous chapters. The exception to this is the Bashiri Brothers/Roshi and Markos/Thalia- I'm still not really sure what the point was of telling these characters stories a ...more
