Book revue again and some suggestions. Lately I have had a passion for reading books about Afghanistan and The Places in Between is an excellent story. It is written by a Scotsman Rory Stewart who has a passion for walking and has walked a good part of the roads through the middle eastern nations.
He chose to walk the route from Herat to Kabul through the high mountains in the winter. Crazy!! Yes!! but so appealing. Along the way he met many different people in different tribes including Taliban and foreign aid workers. At one such community where they welcomed him in for the night and fed him as was their tradition, he found a dog who was mistreated and abused. It was a huge mastiff but a gentle creature most of the time. Rory asked if he could take the dog with him and after a bit of demurring the tribal elder said yes. So off they went the two of them through the strange and sometimes terrifying country. The dog he named Babur after the first Mogul emperor who had made the same journey.
You fall in love with this dog and find the people either kind or scary. Rory tramped through the snow and rain and finally made his way to Kabul. But at the foreign aid station he had them take Babur who was very tired by now to Kabul in the van as he could no longer make the walk. He had them find a crate for Babur so he could to take him back to Scotland. When Roray got to Kabul he found that Babur had died. For the first time in this arduoous journey Rory cried.
Read this one , it is so good.
Also I recommend The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
3 comments:
Hi Nan- I've read The Kite Runner, but not the other book of his (yes, I've forgotten the name ALREADY!lol) I was engrossed by The Kite Runner, but it bothered me for a long time. How does the other book compare- is it as sad? Thanks for the reviews!
haha can't quite remember but it was different from the Kite Runner, still good though.
Nan,
Last week I put an order into betterworldbooks.com for our newly created community library and on the order is "The Places in Between". I'm glad it's such a good book. I just have to be the first person to check it out once it arrives and I get it processed.
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