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" Loved this book. The narration was excellent. Would have liked a happier ending but was a great read/lister. "

" The extremely wretched existence of being an Afghanistan woman along with a story exposing the sick and rotten life that Afghan men have created for everyone in that damned country is revealed by this surprising high art novella. All of the action occurs in a single room so this could easily be turned into a play. It is a frank, honest monologue which reveals a country that hides it's barnyard mentality and psychopathic cruelty behind twisted interpretations of an already illogical collection of religious instructions. As peculiar as the Torah, the Bible and the Koran can read to those who bother to study them, what the Afghans have done with transforming an eighth century book of third-hand, poorly translated stories of Babylonian folk tales and strange body function rituals that HAD to be created by someone with autism or obsessive-compulsive disorder is criminal. It is amazing such a sick and maimed society is often discussed as if in the interests of fairness we must pretend it is sane and legitimate, with normal governing principles grounding the daily lives of all the followers of extreme Islam. For God's sake, the average life expectancy there is around 40, women are basically treated like they are breeding dogs, children as disposable slaves and men are cowering mouth breathers. Perhaps in two decades Afghans will have returned to living in caves trying go remember how to make a fire. No one wants to say out loud how insane this country is. Everyone knows it, the same way we all knew how sick Cambodia, North Korea, Nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia, Idi Amin' s Uganda, and the current Somalia, is. It is similar to being respectful of a rabies infected bat attacking you. If only people would discuss more often and openly how much opium has infiltrated all aspects of Afghan society and by promoting the demonizing of women the men have turned to 'boy dancers' which is creating a future generation of sick, damaged men. The worst part is how Pakistan and Iran are cynically and malignantly 'helping' Afghanistan turn their people into Neanderthal primitives to keep their own populations distracted while using Afghans as political catspaws, and India and China quietly steal every valuable mineral resource Afghanistan possesses while screaming that their intervention is stopping the USA from doing so. It's all so disgusting. And hopeless. In my opinion, it has become an out of control forest fire that will burn until all of the land is destroyed. Since no one can help, we should leave them alone to their devolution (with nothing of value left) and keep books like this around as cautionary tales. "

" min education or healthcare, pride and rush to violence, blood is blood, shot over insult, those who know not love-war, I am revealing words, story of peacock feather, when hard to be woman hard to be man too. "

" This book was disturbing and beautiful at once. The images are horrific and true-feeling and necessary. The prose is poetic. The story is interesting. I flew through it. "

" Woman have a difficult life in Afghanistan. The story was interesting, but I had a difficult time connecting with the protagonist. "

" A novel written with prowess! The writer wears a dry eminence without ostentatious ornaments of grief or emotion. The characters are credulous and the scene almost theatrical. Nearly an ancient Greek drama! "

" Moving. Powerful. Short. One that stays with you. "

" Conceptually very good, and I suppose as a novella, which it is, not bad. I just think he could have done more with it. I could see it done very nicely as a play, however. "

" Written in an interesting narration style - reads like a play. The book suffered, as many do that are written by men from the perspective of a woman, when it dealt with sexuality. I didn't find it believable in that way and I found myself getting irritated rather than being lost in the book. "

" i think it is very amazing film "

" A short book but a powerful story. "

" well this book started off very week, it can show that the writers first lang. is.not English, but the story is okish, its a light reading, short book, over all is 5/10 "

" Alegoria of freedom and suffer set in an islamic country torn by war (resembling Afghanistan). Poetic and bitter story of a woman whose husband has been wounded in battle and now lies as paralysed as a stone - "stone of patience" or "syngue sabour". "

" An Afghan woman finds her voice after a lifetime of having it ignored, beaten down, and repressed. It is beautifully written, more like a poem in many passages. "

" Conceptually very good, and I suppose as a novella, which it is, not bad. I just think he could have done more with it. I could see it done very nicely as a play, however. "

" An amazing 1-sitting read LOADED with symbolism. During an Afghan conflict, a man is rendered comatose by a bullet to his neck. His wife cares for him, but also confesses thoughts and feelings that women of her culture would be killed for sharing. This is raw feminism. "

" Disappointed. Great idea but it didn't work for me. "

" A little gem,terrible and delicate at once.Definitely worth the read. Highly recommended. "

" Tenk teater, boken er perfekt for oppsetning. Bra skrevet av en mann fra en afghansk kvinnes ståsted. Thriller-tendenser. "

" A novel written with prowess! The writer wears a dry eminence without ostentatious ornaments of grief or emotion. The characters are credulous and the scene almost theatrical. Nearly an ancient Greek drama! "

" am glad such a book was written as it captures the v raw emotions of such a suppressed being. "