We're talking the ultimate sacrifice of Miriam with her life to let Leila move on and live with Tariq, who comes back, which I'm kind of like, wow, we should have guessed that. And then it's like, what was this whole game that Rashid was playing and, like, going, oh, this man bring a man to tell her that he's dead just so he can marry her. I don't know
So one thing is the similarity between Husseini's Kite Runner and this book while Kaitranner was about a friendship between two men, this one is about the relationship between mothers and daughters and friendships between women. This is, of course, the difference between the two, but there are a lot of striking similarities when you look at them. Both. The novels have a very villainous kind of villain and also this perfect best friend who is ready to go to any extent to save his friendship, his or her friendship
She says it's okay. Operate on me. I don't need the nasty. I just want to see my baby in my arms, though. This is a pretty melodramatic scene, if you ask me, but then it kind of drove home. The fact that this was also the reality, and I've done under the Taliban, and this really kind of disturbed me so much that I had to close the book and kind of take some time to compose myself
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 1:05
Oh, my goodness. Yes. That scene was just insane. I like what you said, you know how it is melodramatic and all of that. But despite all of it just leaves you like, what just happened? The whole concept of Afghanistan going from the Communist to the Majahadim to the Taliban. I mean, just in a downward spiral, just getting sucked into this quick sand. And it's just like, oh, wow. So disturbing. And this is just fiction
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 4:58
But then the men at the men's hospital are receiving priority before the women, which is just infuriating. And it was really difficult to watch that scene unfold, only imagining the amount of pain that a woman would experience having to get a C section without any anesthesia. It was honestly horrific to imagine
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:47
I wanted to share another conversation I started that's related to the backdrop A-A-A-A-A Thousand Splendid Suns part book. Yesterday I wanted to just do a quick look into where things are right now with the Taliban and Afghanistan, and it was pretty amazing to see that it looks as though just yesterday news broke that they are to release some of the remaining Taliban prisoners as a way to hopefully begin to negotiate peace talk. So just wanted to post a link to that soul here in case anyone listening would like to contribute
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:56
I do want to bring up a really quick thing about that Csection scene and a little side note. Have any of you read the short story Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway done it a couple of times, once in high school and once in College. It seems like the short story to do in Elit in that you have this doctor going to this Indian camp and delivering a child through Csection without anesthesia. And it's interesting that when I was reading the book thousands, I didn't think about Indian camp
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 3:10
I just feel this intense sadness for her that she never got to get the education that she wanted or even have anything resembling, I think, the life she dreamed of as a girl, and there's just something really inherently tragic in that I'm curious if anyone else feels different. I do think there's something that Husseini is trying to say here about motherhood and sacrifice that I feel I'm not quite sure how I feel about it yet, but I would love to hear more on that