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What an outstanding writer Hosseini is! I couldn't put this book down once I began to read, and toward the end I slowed to a crawl reading because I didn't want it to end. It's not an easy story to read if you don't like images of violence, especially of war or directed toward women, but that's the reality of life in Afghanistan. Hosseini covers the last 25-30 years of Afghan history through the story of the lives of two women. Mariam is the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy man and his houseke
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There's a sort of macabre voyeurism in this sort of story that I'll never be comfortable with, especially when it's told without any subtlety or nuance. At every moment, we know exactly what the author wants us to feel. Elated, devastated, hopeful, utterly despairing. Except that it's an American novel so things will work out well enough at the end of the day, even if the author has to pick a thin moment of history for that hopeful day and ignore everything that came after.
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"With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to dust off, to resuscitate once again what was long dead. There would come a day, in fact, years later, when Laila would no longer bewail his loss. Or not as relentlessly; not nearly. There would come a day when the details of his face would begin to slip from memory's grip, when overhearing a mother on the street call after her child by Tariq's name would no longer cut he
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I know i'm a bad person not to like this book but i couldn't get past the melodrama; swore I could hear the plaintive violin tones (for the upcoming movie version?) jumping off the page. The characters seem two-dimensional and unrelatable, and in the service of making A Point. Can't say I loved the Kite Runner either maybe it's just me!
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Well worth reading, although it is not an easy one. Fiction with a happy ending still how many people out there living through similar stories.
Read this in one sitting in high school when I was really supposed to be doing homework. Fantastic! Everyone needs to read this book.
Jun 07, 2009
Shomeret
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Jun 17, 2009
Diane
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it was amazing
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