Author: Khaled Hossaini
To write an average review on this book will never be justified. A nail biter, keeps you indulged intensely till the end and even after that. I personally had the book in my mind for the next week at least. And to be completely honest, the world in my eyes changed after I read it. The diction is so perfect that whenever an intense event takes place, you feel shivers running down your spine.
The book basically consists of two stories revolving around two girls, which as the book progresses, meet dramatically, tragically and miserably.
One Marium and the other Laila. The former is an illegitimate child (bastard) while the latter belongs to a broken sort of family. The story shows the three degrees of unfortunate. In the first part of the story, the positive form of unfortunate is described by the story of Marium, how she is ignored by her father, and how her mother leaves her alone in the world of miseries. The second part shows the comparative form of unfortunate, as Laila and Marium are compared with each other, when Marium is unwillingly married to an older man, and couldn't give birth while Laila's brothers die in war. The third part of the story focuses on the superlative degree of unfortunate when Laila's parents die and she is saved by the Husband of Marium, only to find her lover has died and she had conceived his illegitimate child. Marium's husband forces her to marry him, and after she has given birth to his boy, she finds out that all that news about her lover dying was just a sick trick played by Marium's husband just for the sake of his lust for fresh and young love but instead tyrannizes both his wives fiercely both orally and physically.
But there is a very slick turn to the story towards the end, of which i can only say that 'a murder takes place and that changes the fate of everyone'.
As the happenings take place in Afghanistan, a painfully miserable sketch has been drawn of the civil unrest and all the other events involving Taliban, Americans, The forces, the government, the killings and mass murders. A reader like me literally breaks down form the inside.
Towards the end, Khaled hossaini shows some optimism, and the ending to the story satisfies the reader and restores the faith in humanity.
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