A Thousand Splendid Suns

If you're wanting to read a sweet, happy, fun book, don't choose A Thousand Splendid Suns. It's definitely not any of those! It is "a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years...It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war..."

If you've read The Kite Runner, this was written by the same author, Khaled Hosseini.

Although difficult to read at times, and devastatingly difficult to imagine that life could treat people in this manner, it is a good book to help us understand the effects of war, the effects of a country where man is dominant and woman is nothing - or less than nothing. It's a heartbreaker.