a thousand splendid suns

just finished reading it last night. a beautiful story. makes you think about your own choices, endless possibilites, unappreciated. very simple, to the point style of writing but because of that very poetic. every detail contains incredible amounts of images, feelings; simple words create a complex world of entrapment, violence, repressed desires, absurd inequality. the essence of life stripped down to a simple will of surviving, somehow, yet another day. another proof that too often a person can become a shadow of one's own self, one's life a mockery of existence. until eyes wide shut become eyes wide open.