I’ve decided to share my finds and the excellent reviews of my fellow book bloggers each Monday. Leave a comment with a link to your post or a trackback if you decide to play along.
The fourth book to catch my eye in my book blog browsing was A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini reviewed by The KoolAid Mom over at In The Shadow of Mt. TBR.
What caught my attention?
The KoolAid Mom wrote a lengthy review so it’s hard to pick out one thing in particular that caught my attention. This paragraph sums up what piqued my interest:
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a visceral account of life in a war zone, the horror, the sounds and the bodies. It is beautiful at times with poetic passages and loving moments between characters, while revealing the life of oppression women were forced to endure during the Taliban rule in Afghanistan. It is haunting, depressing, joyful, and hopeful.
There’s quite a bit more to this thoughtfully written review, so I encourage you to check it out.
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I really want to read this one, but haven’t gotten around to it. I loved The Kite Runner though.
I agree with Koolaid Mom description. I enjoyed this book as much as The Kite Runner, albeit for different reasons. Khaled Hosseini said in an interview that in The Kite Runner he showed what it was like for him as a boy during the turmoil in Afghanistan; and that he later wrote A Thousand Splendid Suns to tell the story of what things were like for women in Afghanistan. I’m glad he did. It is well worth reading.