After having read the other two books,'And the Mountains echoed' and 'The Kite Runner',I knew I had to read this irresistible creation.
A thought provoking and mind blowing read,only hardest of hearts can fail to move.A saga of two women fighting against all odds, after having faced them,this shows us that behind every burqa there is a human being.
His lyrical way of writing makes you feel as though you aren't reading this story but it is itself narrating it.No doubt he is a master storyteller who keeps you captivated and in the end and later you feel like you had been a small part of the character's lives,feeling their pain and blemishes,carrying them around with you until it finishes.
Being unimaginably heart rending,at the end a few shed tears for the heroines or smile unknowingly at their endurance and strength.
Sometimes I feel the three novels written by him are all part of one,reminding the world of what Afghanistan has gone through and that you won't find a single person their alive who hasn't lost something.
In spite of all this and the fact that they are fictional, we know that these books are the most ravishing examples of Afghanistan's strength and suffering.