It took me a while, okay, actually a year, to start this book. After reading Khaled Hosseini's first novel, I was too traumatized to open another one of his novels.
As The Kite Runner narrates to us of a boy's journey to manhood, this novel demonstrates to us how it is to be a woman in Afganistan. Hosseini takes us to a place where women are treated like second class citizens, where they are judged by different standards and treated like slaves. They are basically stripped of any form of freedom, from their choice of husband to the clothes they wear. The heartache I feel does not stem from the story itself, but by knowing that this story actually exists at our time. That what we take forgranted everyday is a blessing for women living half way across the world.
More than showing to us these tragedies, I believe that the author wants his readers to think about what we can do about it.
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