It is a well written story by Hossini. I picked it up
after it was recommended in TOI book review and thought to try it out. I think
he got some award as well for this book. It’s a story based out of Afghanistan
& partly in US. Coincidently, it’s the third book I read with a story
around Afghanistan
(Other two were Shantaram, which has a part of the plot set in afgan &
Federik Forsyth’s’The Afgan’).
The plot of this book
is around two boys, one son of a rich afhgan merchant and other one being his
servant( & illegal brother).something seemed like coming from a hindi
movie, specially the revelation that the other boy was illegal brother of the
first one. But I liked the concept of the movie, the insecurities one may have
as a kid and not all kids could be brave enough to stand up for others and that
may certainly pinch then with guilt for a long time.
Overall, a good read for a
lightweight story.