3.5 AVERAGE


Belle plume, simple a lire ce qui met en avant la tristesse de l’histoire, j’aime énormément le fait qu’on puisse s’informer sur les guerres dans le monde tout en lisant un roman en s’attachant a un personnage, pour réaliser encore plus la souffrance qui a dans ce monde que moi en tant que lectrice je ne vis pas. La fin est tres touchante, le livre en entier est touchant, réaliste et pas cliché. J’ai lu certains livre comme celui la qui romantisait ces situations avec beaucoup de cliché mais Khadra a su écrire un livre que qualité.
J’adore

Waouh les filles ... j'ai lu ce livre en un après-midi parce que l'histoire m'a captivée.
J'ai appris plusieurs choses : Yasmina Khadra n'est pas une femme (un peu déçue d'ailleurs), et plein de mots compliqués qu'il a utilisés (au moins deux par page je vais pas mentir).
Récit très poétique donc sur une femme si belle qu'elle tue des gens. Lethal face card me direz-vous.
Mais surtout c'est l'amour que porte un personnage à son mari qui m'a le plus touchée. C'est tellement bien écrit (pas comme cette review).
challenging dark sad tense fast-paced
dark reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
informative reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional informative sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

2.5 stars, though I can easily see readers with other preferences rating it higher. The story is bleak and miserable, but it gives a good window into the mindset of fundamentalists in the Afghan region, the frustrated struggles of ordinary people living under such a regime, and the extent of culturally entrenched misogyny in some places ("My wife, who has no family left and who I met when she saved my life at the risk to her own, is terminally ill." "So why the hell don't you divorce her, bro?!"). A key detail is left frustratingly undisclosed at the end (so what happened to [spoiler redacted]???) but that might have been on purpose, to emphasize the sense of lost-ness and pointlessness that permeates the city in this novel. Effective as a glimpse into an unfamiliar place during a significant modern period, but it leaves the reader as frustrated as the characters (though I'm sure that was on purpose--but that makes it definitely not my preferred kind of read). Definitely not a feel-good book.
challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes