A Thousand Splendid Suns

A page turner, just like his earlier book The Kite Runner. I read this on a bored Sunday at one sitting, and ended up with very sore eyes. Books like this are great, because they raise social awareness about issues that are happening in some dark corner of the world and casting them in real, human terms helps bring such issues closer to the public. But it is depressing to read and frankly I am feeling a little de-sensitized towards over-reported instances of war, oppression and violence. I am beyond "how can this happen?" but I have no answer to "how do we stop this from happening?" and perhaps the result of this is apathy, followed by attacks of guilt. The ending gives us hope, with the intending birth of another generation, and optimism that things can change for the better, hopefully not too long in the future.