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06 mai 2008
MASSIVELY ENTERTAINING!!!
2 personnes sur 2 ont jugé cet avis utile. I'd read The Kite Runner a few months ago, and it was one of the most amazing and touching experiences I've ever had as a reader. I bought a copy of A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS from an e-bay site; I'd heard such great things about it, and, having loved his first book, I had little doubt about Khaled Hosseini's next work.
Unbelievably, this book is even more touching gut-wrenching, and moving. The characters instantly win our sympathy, and we root for all of them. Kite Runner, set against Afghanistan over a similar span of time as that covered in ATSS, focused on the role of men in Afghan society; it said little about life through the eyes of a woman (or women). In ATSS, Hosseini paints a rich historical canvas, peopled with both genders, however, the protagonists in this tale are for the most part, female. You cannot read this book without understanding exactly how a woman in Afghanistan may have felt as she lived through the many changes in her country: from the Soviet-invasion-era and the freedom women enjoyed during that time: to teach, to work, to walk alone down the street - without a burqa, if one so desired; and then the later decades, when the Taliban ruled the land and women were forced back indoors, not allowed to work, to walk or travel anywhere unless accompanied by a man; and all women were required to wear burqas at all times. To break any of these rules guaranteed a whipping, a beating, or worse. To get this close to beloved characters, and then to walk the same path with them, and to witness the hardships (and the few, hard-won victories) they were forced to face, is almost exhausting. It would be, were not Khaled Hosseini such a brilliant storyteller. Instead of exhausting, the road we travel in ATSS is a beautiful, terrible, yet always exhilarating.
You won't be able to stop cheering for the story's two heroines; an unlikely friendship forms betwen them over time, and we hope (hope against the reality of their lives) both will find love and happiness, and if not, then that they'll find a semblance of peace. Hosseini delivers on every level. I read this book in two sittings (it would have been one, but I had to get up early the next morning!). Though it doesn't -- of course -- this is a book that should come with a you-ll-love-it guarantee: it's that great.