Very dark and disturbing. Also hard to know what is fiction and what the author is taking from known historical fact. I assume that all the behind the scenes government strategy, terrible war amd terrorist tactics mentioned in the book are true and therefore this has been a most disturbing and depressing reading experience. After readng this, it's a wonder the world still exists.I hope my next reading experience is something uplifting and hopeful, and I wish this for the author. How can you not fall in love with a story which is set in a house where books are nailed to the ceiling and great works of art peep through the whitewash. The five characters whose lives intersect in this strange house in post 9/11 war torn Afghanistan are Marcus, an English expat who was married to an outspoken Afghani doctor; David, a former American spy, who has seen Afghanistan through the Russians, the Taliban, and the Americans; Lara from St. Petersburg looking for her brother, a Russian soldier; Casa, a young Afghani zealot and James an American soldier in the Special Forces. Its mesmerizing, a brilliant read.“How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.” “The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.”
What do You think about La Vaine Attente (2008)?
Good, but difficult to get through because of the crazy pronoun use.
—doozy
So beautiful, so sad, hard to read but you want to keep going.
—Corrinaxo
