Afghanistan - Books

I am currently reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I find it very fascinating! The language isn't as elegant as Anne Rice's but is as sentimental.  I will try to post here what I think of the book as soon as I'm done reading. I'm on chapter six right now.

By the way, it's already made into a movie. And if I am not mistaken it's 

even  nominated in the recent Academy Awards. 

 the two by Khaled hosseini. Liked the Kite runner better than the 1000 sun.

I have the movie of Kite runner but have not seen it yet.

Afghanistan seems to have an intriguing culture. i have read a few other books pertaining to this region. Has any body read any of this

1. My feudal lord (based in pakistan)

2. Not without my daughter(based in IRan)

3. myaada(based in Iraq)

4. Princess and Daughter of Arabia(based in saudi)

All these books give us the idea that their is a similar undertone and shades to culture of all these places.

all these books tell us one common thing,  that is adversity brings out the extremes in people....the best and the worst....isn't it.

We are only children once...but we can keep the child in us forever.

Something I lifted from my blog since I think it's relevant to the thread.

"Stranger in Paradise" [by Sayeh Dashti, Ph. D.] is the life story of the Iranian author who had migrated to US. Islamic culture has been the center of my fascination lately and I feel lucky to have come across this gem of a biography. The promise that 1960s Iran will be laid out to me through the eyes of a Moslem woman excited me a lot that I couldn't help reading the first few pages of the memoirs. I came to know that Tehran used to be the "it" place in the Middle Eastern geography, the Paris of the Arab world where culture and technology flourished; that in the 60s young people there listened to rock and roll as in the West, that girls wore mini-skirts, and that books abounded. I wonder how many people do actually know that. I feel privileged. This is a great follow-up to Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" which I've just finished reading. 

not set in Afghanistan but "Eight Months on Ghazza Street" by Hilary Mantel set in Jeddah, left an impression on me when I first read it about twenty years ago.  I must get another copy and read it again.  If you havent' read it and would like to do so just let me know.

*********** "There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out". - Richard Dawkins

I read bookseller of Kabul and have a copy of the same too.

I got a lot of info about the Taliban and how the Afganis lived under their regime.

But Though the title was Bookseller , I think the story was more about what went on inside the house of a bookseller in Kabul.

Also got to know how porous the border between Afganistan and NWFP is .

Good that the Pakistani govt  and the people there provide so much care and hospitality to people from Afganistan.

Aunt Polly