James Higgins từ Mierea , Romania

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05/06/2024

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2018-03-18 15:31

Giấc Mơ Cối Xay Gió Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

A flawed book with the best of intentions The Taliban arrived in Kabul the day Kamila Sidiqi received her teaching certificate. Shortly thereafter, the teenager became the unofficial head of a large household of younger siblings (mostly female) after her parents and teenage brother fled to safety in the countryside and Pakistan, respectively. The young women quickly adapted to the restrictions imposed by the Taliban on movements (leaving the house only at certain times of day, always accompanied by a male relative escort, covered by a head to toe veil) and women's working (not allowed except for small domestic industry within the home). But Kamila soon realised that she would need to think up something to support the family, so she started a dressmaking business with her siblings, soon putting many young women in the neighbourhood to work as well. Although the story is compelling, the book suffers from being poorly written and edited. We get a series of vignettes, painted with detail, but not well. I would rather have had some transitional passages than to read about how someone reclined on a red floor cushion or tossed a thick braid over her shoulder. Some details are contradictory or don't seem realistic (she learned to make a dress in one afternoon, the dress was able to be marketed, and she was able to instantly teach her sisters). The younger sisters are nearly interchangeable except for their job descriptions: we only really get a personality for Kamila and Malika. The mother arrives back in Kabul, supposedly to stay, and quickly leaves again with no explanation. Months or years pass and the reader is left confused about how old the sisters are now... and so forth. While I find the character of Kamila compelling I felt this book had a bit of a Polyanna attitude. No one in the family had any apparent flaws, there were no arguments (except for one time when Malika breathes deeply for a few minutes), and every decision made by Kamila, no matter how rash, turns out to be a good one. The explanation of the fall of Kabul to American occupation is rushed through, and certain phrases are repeated over and over ("the men from Kandahar"). I suspect the author was a little bit too in love with the family to write objectively. Also, this book could have been edited with a much heavier hand to delineate the timeline, clear up inconsistent detail, and eliminate some of the tired prose. It is only because the story of Kamila and her sisters is so compelling that I finished the book at all. They deserved a better book than this one.

Người đọc James Higgins từ Mierea , Romania

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.