Books and Beyond

Khaled Hosseini is the author of the bestselling "The Kite Runner".

A Thousand Splendid Suns tells a sad story of two Afghan women, who came from two different places and cultures but eventually gathered in one house in the war-ridden Kabul. For me this is a very tiring book with all the miseries happened to those two poor women. I hate that so many people are so very mean.

Like in The Kite Runner, the author introduced some history of Afghanistan. The Monarchy Era then the Soviet Era then the Warlord Era then the Taliban Era until the current post 9/11 era.

I like one quote in the novel saying something like this: An Afghan can defeat all but himself. After all the hardships in fighting the Soviet, I find it sad that the Afghans should suffer from all the fightings among the factions of the Warlords and then came the Talibans and then George Bush…

Too many mean people, stupid people in this world!

I like The Kite Runner better than this one.

As a cure to this sad novel, I am so glad that my friend Daniel lend me a heartwarmer book "Laskar Pelangi" by Andrea Hirata. A very inspiring book, highly recommended.