Life is difficult for eleven year old Fawad in Kabul. The Taliban is gone, but he still needs to work the streets to earn money to help support his mother. When his mother finds work cooking for a household of foreigners, Fawad has little idea how much his life will change. Living with the foreigners exposes Fawad to a variety of new ideas, but he remains true to his Afghan culture.
Told through young Fawad's eyes, this book provides a detailed look at life in Afghanistan in wake of the Taliban, of the struggle of the Afghan people to survive the turmoil that is today's Afghanistan. This is also a love story and a story about the collision of cultures. All of this is interpreted with great sympathy by our narrator. It is perhaps the most compelling portrait of the ongoing struggle to define a new country from the ruins caused by thirty years of conflict. In the end, this is a hopeful and optimistic look at Afghanistan and its people.
Andrea Busfield is a British journalist who first traveled to Afghanistan to cover the fall of the Taliban in 2001 as a reporter for the News of the World. She is now a full-time writer living in Bad Ischl, Austria. Born Under a Million Shadows is her first book.
Trying to relate to this unreasonable world from the eyes of a 11 year old child, the author paints a picture of slattered post-war world for us. It is bitter to learn what a horrible life people are living at that time. It is intriguing to read the thought...
评分Trying to relate to this unreasonable world from the eyes of a 11 year old child, the author paints a picture of slattered post-war world for us. It is bitter to learn what a horrible life people are living at that time. It is intriguing to read the thought...
评分Trying to relate to this unreasonable world from the eyes of a 11 year old child, the author paints a picture of slattered post-war world for us. It is bitter to learn what a horrible life people are living at that time. It is intriguing to read the thought...
评分Trying to relate to this unreasonable world from the eyes of a 11 year old child, the author paints a picture of slattered post-war world for us. It is bitter to learn what a horrible life people are living at that time. It is intriguing to read the thought...
评分Trying to relate to this unreasonable world from the eyes of a 11 year old child, the author paints a picture of slattered post-war world for us. It is bitter to learn what a horrible life people are living at that time. It is intriguing to read the thought...
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评分人物塑造达到了令人拍案叫绝的层次,那些行走在文字中的生命体,没有一个是扁平的符号,他们复杂、矛盾,充满了人性的灰度。主角内心的挣扎与外在环境的压迫形成了剧烈的化学反应,他们时而坚韧如磐石,时而脆弱得像易碎的琉璃。尤其是配角群像的刻画,更是精彩绝伦,即便是戏份不多的龙套角色,也拥有自己完整而可信的动机和背景故事,让你能清晰地理解他们做出每一个选择的原因,哪怕那个选择是错误的、是毁灭性的。作者似乎拥有洞察人性的X光眼,能够毫不留情地揭示出光鲜外表下的怯懦、欲望和偏见,同时又能在最深的黑暗中捕捉到一丝微弱却真实的光芒。阅读过程中,我常常会把自己代入到不同角色的立场上去思考,那种强烈的代入感,使得这本书的阅读体验不再是被动的接收信息,而更像是一场深刻的、多视角的哲学思辨。
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