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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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Read this for a book club, really enjoyed how well Hosseini capture the women in the story. Very sad, very political, and very entrenched in what is going on currently in Afghanistan.
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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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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.
another masterpiece from one of my fave authors...
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