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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Kahled Hosseini
Genre : Fiction
Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written an emotionally complex story of a brother and sister who are separated when they are young, and how this choice resonated through generations. Then there are multiple stories connected to the house in Kabul where Pari lives until her mother moves with her to Paris. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us.
“Abdullah used to wonder how such a frail little body could house so much joy, so much goodness. It couldn’t. It spilled out of her, came pouring out her eyes. Father was different. Father had hardness in him. His eyes looked out on the same world as Mother’s had, and saw only indifference. Endless toil. He knew that in their mother’s dying, something of her had passed to Pari. Something of her cheerful devotion, her guilelessness, her unabashed hopefulness.”
“Kabul is . . .” Idris searches for the right words, “A thousand tragedies per square mile.”
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