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The Kite Runner  By Khaled Hosseini  Genre : Afghanistan, classics,good-prose ,2023-read, Historical Fiction  Rating 5/5  This story spans the time period from 1975 to 2002 threading its way through Afghanistan and America. The story sees the country of Afghanistan peaceful in the early to late 1970s, struggling and haggling under the tyranny of Russia through 1980s and stifling under the overtake and rule of the Taliban. This is one of those countries where going back to a peaceful past is no longer possible. Even those who were acquainted with that period are running in short supply. May God help and provide for the still suffering. There is little that we as spectators know of these countries and the plight of such people unless books such as these - although fiction - are written and Khaled Hosseini is a crusader for their cause!! This book has proved to be a challenge for finishing in one read. I remember vividly the number of times I gave it a ...

A Thousand Splendid Suns  By Khaled Hosseini  Rating 5/5  Genres : War, Fiction, Hope and loss  Wow. This book is just splendid. It had my gut twisted in knots, heart racing with fear and anticipation,hoping after hope that it all ends well for Mariam and Laila who had to go through enormous amounts of domestic abuse and suffer unspeakable losses. While there is always a fierce war going on on the outside, there is an internal war raging within the homes of Afghanistan where women are reduced to slaves and dependants on their tyrannical and sadistic husbands. The author looks at one such family living through the war times in Kabul and how their fates change and alter with the changing times..rules..dictats of the ruling authorities.  The story plot goes thus. Mariam is a girl born in Herat of Afghanistan to an unwed mother. She adores her father but he succumbs to his family pressure and marries her off to a old widower after her mother's death. Aft...