The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul: The heart-warming and uplifting international bestseller

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The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul: The heart-warming and uplifting international bestseller

The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul: The heart-warming and uplifting international bestseller

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There is emotional engagement with the universal and major themes of the book - love, death and grief. In this vibrantly descriptive novel, the author has recreated the Kabul world and gives historical, political and cultural information.

EXCERPT: 'Layla had never been able to shed the nightmares about the men who had taken her as revenge for her sister's escape, the memories of those days before Jack had come to rescue her. All in all I began this book confused of all the different characters and backgrounds and the relationships to each other but as I carried on the book, I started to connect the dots and understood who was who and from where etc. I think what really made me continue on with this story is that I found myself connecting with the characters even though we are worlds apart.First of all, I honestly can't believe that people like Faheem exist, he has a very disgusting personality and people like him just waste oxygen. While you will be eager to know what will happen next, thanks to Zara who maintains this feeling throughout the book, the previous characters of Sunny and Yazmina won't appeal to you that much. But overall it was a nice story to read and once it kicked off I was interested in what was happening with them. This was a book about finding a place where you belong, about clashes of culture and beliefs, and importantly, about the lives of Afghan women in contemporary Afghan society. Lots of characters and different stories to remember and understand; which was hard as I have not read the first book I just picked this one up randomly at the library (they didn't have the first one).

Let us just hope, that sometime – in our lifetimes – Afghanistan will find a way of combining Islam, tradition and modernity to create a country that is uniquely Afghan, not ruled or directed by foreigners. Book Two was a mistake that would never have been read by me were it not for the curiosity about the series. On the flip side, the Muslim family in Kabul begins to learn that they do not have to put up with the strict, unfairness in the treatment of women, and can strive to do something about it. At first, I found it hard to read the book since the first few pages were boring, but then things started to get interesting.

I liked the concept of the dual stories but found that it was very slow moving and too much print was given to recapping what had happened in the earlier book (great if you haven't read the first book!

A reminder that Afghanistan hasn't always been like this, that women used to be free (look it's a bad word choice but I can't think of a better one).Whereas the other two books take place almost exclusively in Afghanistan, generally in Kabul, this book oscillates between USA and Afghanistan. This is the story of six women - three of them live in Kabul, Afghanistan and the other three live in the Pacific Northwest of America. Whilst I felt the plot picked up pace two-thirds of the way through, the ending was a bit rushed and weak.



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