A Thousand Splendid Suns/Khaled Hosseini

rating: 4 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this book very much. It gave me some perspective on a part of the world I shamefully admit I know little about.



As a reader who infrequently reads male authors, I was happily surprised at how well Hosseini captured his female characters.



I know that sounds discriminatory but with so many books out there, one has to narrow it down somehow. (Other male authors I admire for their ability to write women characters are Wally Lamb -- who could forget She's Come Undone? -- and Chris Bohjalian The Law of Similars and Midwives.)