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It's difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow than The Kite Runner: a debut novel by an unknown writer about a country many readers knew little about that has gone on to have over four million copies in print worldwide. But when preview copies of Khaled Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, started circulating at Ama ... review details
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An emotional reading
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This is one of the most moving books I have ever read. It made me weep, lots. It made me furiously angry. It is one of the first books that has made me hate. There were times when I felt that I could not cope, myself, with one more tragedy, that this author was merciless, but he gave us respite near the end, and turned my rage to gentle yet lachrymose sorrow and a feeling of beauty and triumph in the closing stages.
It is a book filled with horror, and yet it is one that ends with the wounds salved but not dismissed. It is a book that inspires one to want to do something to assist, and it is a book that has helped me to understand Afghanistan and the position of the refugees there.
I only finished it an hour or so ago, but I cannot concentrate on anything else. Its words and images are coursing through my body; their resonance will last a long time.
I have never before been made to feel so keenly the hopeless plight of women in these repressive regimes, never before felt their inequality so strongly, and never before been placed in the shoes of someone treated as a thing, a possession, by someone else - especially when that someone is a despicable brute. I have never before bothered to consider what it must be like to be born out of wedlock in a place where that matters.
I have always known of the senselessness of war, and of its horror, and yet these emotions, too, were felt with a new intensity and reality. I really lived through this war as new "friends" died. I also was made to realise in a new way the manner in which violence becomes excessive, escalatory, addictive to its perpetrators, in a reaction similar to that of a dog who has tasted the flesh of a living victim.
And why do I feel all this? Because of the immediacy of the tale, the excellence of the characterisation, the verisimilitude of the descriptions and the emotions Hosseini stirs. Khaled Hosseini has told his tale superbly and brought the horrors of his country's war into our homes. The ending shows us, however, that his purpose is not just to horrify us, but to work through that horror to make us aware of the plight of our fellow humans. And we do not walk away with horror as the predominant emotion. Like true classical tragedy, this book leaves us with many positive emotions - the feeling of respect and wonder at the indomitable human spirit of Laila, honour for Mariam and the sacrifice makes, and hope for a future that can be shaped by people such as Tariq and his family. |
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