Review
Unsurprisingly,
A Thousand
Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini's follow up to
The Kite Runner, has received very wide
review coverage. You'll find reviews from about a
dozen different critics at BookBrowse (as always
abbreviated to the reviewer's essential opinion to
avoid both plot spoilers and repetition). Some
critics love it, some are lukewarm, but even those
who write less than glowing reviews have to admit
that, whatever Hosseini's literary weaknesses might
be, he does write very compelling storylines and is
indisputably one of the world's nicer human beings.
Having viewed Afghanistan through the lives of two
men in
The Kite Runner, Hosseini turns his
attention to the lives of two women whose stories...
Beyond the Book
A Short History of
Afghanistan
Afghanistan lies on the
historically important
trading routes between the
Middle East and the Indian
sub-continent. As a result of
numerous invasions and
migrations it is made up of many
different
ethnic groups
including Baluch, Chahar Aimak,
Turkmen, Hazara, Pashtun, Tajik,
Uzbek, Nuristani, Arab, Kirghiz,
Pashai and Persian.
Historically, the
Pashtun
nationality has been the most
dominant representing about 50%
of the total population....
