Reading about Afghanistan

Finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. A great read, and a great audio book. The Reader, Atossa Leoni, who is German-born of Afghan ancestry, was chosen because she could pronounce the Afghan words. I appreciate a book more when it is read to me. It was perhaps slow, but by the middle of the audio book, I transfered to the written word. Sitting down one evening to finish the book. I loved it more than The Kite Runner probably because it was a story of two women, bound together by a infant. It touched my female soul, knowing how much bonding to a baby can be like. Sharing my grandson with my daughter, or rather she shared him with me, only made that time more precious. I especially liked the ending.