The book was written with so much vivid descriptions that you might thought you were seeing incidents happening in front of you. At some point, it was even so heart wreaking that i could feel the pain the characters were in.
We are all born and being brought up in nice and peaceful countries where water, electricity, food, clothes and shelters are all basic necessities. We are all shouting for gender equality, where women should be treated just like men. We are wanted freedom of speech, freedom of mobility where we got to travel to other nice countries. We were all given the opportunity for education and even the mass choices of what we want to study. We complaint when there is a hike in cost, we complaint that the government is not doing enough for us, we complaint when the food or service in the restaurant is poor, we even complaint when once in a while, the internet connection got cut off for awhile.
The story told of the lives of a typical Afghanistan woman from the time she was born. It also at the same time, tell us the real situation when a country is in war. It also paint a clear picture of how the culture of an Islamic country is like, and how the men behave.
Can you imagine rockets and missiles being fired around your house? Can you imagine a bullet flying over you with a bare missed of only an inch? Or could you imagine how your childhood friend were being bombed into pieces and only to find her missing leg with her shoe still intact up on a tree where she was killed a few weeks after her funeral? Can you picture her mother going to the place where she was bombed to pick up bit and pieces of her? Can you ( a woman) being punched in the face, blood dripping off your nose, limbs broken, swollen eyes and still have to endure the pain of being under a belt again? And imagine the pain for the next thirty and forty years!
A thousands splendid suns will let you see all the above, if not more. It could paint the picture so vividly that you feel like you were in Afghanistan. You can even sensed the fear of the presence of the Taliban, the gunfires, the fist of a man, the need to have cut open the stomach for the baby without medications........
Somehow with all these sufferings and pains that one has to go through, one will still manage to survive and live on. The characters in the story might be fiction, but i am sure, somewhere in Afghanistan, someone real might has just been through incidents in the book, and while the fictional story closed in a nice note for the characters, the real Afghanistan is till in war and its citizens still suffering every day....
For those who loves to read but have not pick up this title, do pick it up and you will definitely enjoy the book as much as i do. Its will worth all the time you will be investing in it.
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