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This book helps me to understand Afghani culture better. What pinned my interest the most is how an Afghani survives in their life in current day Afghanistan. For a country thorn by war for 3 decades, living an ordinary life would never simple enough. But as this book shows, living life in Afghanistan is indeed a battle within another battle. The tradition, the restriction, the strings attached. All ties a human into a set of system that barely left them to breath.
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For women, it is even worse. C ...more
This is an amazing book. It is the story of what it is really like in an Afghan family and the realities of what life was like in Afghanistan after 2001. The author is able to live with the family of an Afghan bookseller, and she gets to see the harsh realities of life for women and children, although it is not always easy for the men, either. The plight of women, though, is horrific and unbelievable to most of us in this day and age. Through her book, the author gives us a glimpse of the compli
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May 19, 2011
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Fascinating. I love non-fiction that's better than fiction.
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