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Mar 21, 2020
Jenny (Reading Envy)
marked it as did-not-finish
Bored me to tears, had to just let it go
I enjoyed this small, short book. I tried reading it as a regular novel, expecting character development of the main character as the story is told. This is more like separate stories where the original character sometimes appears. The stories are related by area and time period, but often are unrelated to each other.
It is hard for me to imagine living as these people do - it seems so harsh and primitive to me - but this is why I plan to read stories from around the world - to see how it is to l ...more
It is hard for me to imagine living as these people do - it seems so harsh and primitive to me - but this is why I plan to read stories from around the world - to see how it is to l ...more
3.75
Small, meandering book loosely following a young boy, later called Tor Baz, through the plains and nomadic tribes of the borderlands between Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan called the FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Area). I enjoyed this book because it was entirely un-political. The novel, although not linear, illuminated the lives and survival of tribes that live in this region.
“The Wandering Falcon” is a character who travels throughout the tribes, over the mountains and the plains, i ...more
Small, meandering book loosely following a young boy, later called Tor Baz, through the plains and nomadic tribes of the borderlands between Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan called the FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Area). I enjoyed this book because it was entirely un-political. The novel, although not linear, illuminated the lives and survival of tribes that live in this region.
“The Wandering Falcon” is a character who travels throughout the tribes, over the mountains and the plains, i ...more
The sense of place in “The Wandering Falcon” is so strong that one can almost feel the searing wind and bitter cold of the borderlands where Pakistan and Afghanistan blend into each other. The only things less forgiving than the place’s climate are the peoples who inhabit it, who are less concerned about nation and even culture than about tribe. Into this severe and desolate land, where slavery and revenge are legal, even commonplace, where people are kidnapped or sold and the sudden enforcement
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an incredibly quick read... not sure how long it will stay with me -- i thought the convention of using tor baz to loosely weave together a bunch of essentially short stories was clever, but something about the book felt as desolate as the landscape it described... i'll never see afghanistan, and waziristan in particular, for myself -- so i'll keep reading through books like this to try to imagine what it might be like..
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Sep 18, 2011
Tanya
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Sara
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Jan 14, 2012
Soumya
marked it as to-read
May 06, 2012
Nivas
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Aug 25, 2012
Friederike Knabe
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Oct 17, 2012
sash.
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Nov 21, 2012
Dee
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Jan 19, 2013
Diane
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Mar 21, 2013
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
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Jul 16, 2014
Pat
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Rusalka
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K
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Feb 15, 2017
Dioni
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Mar 19, 2017
Sharon
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