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Title: Perspective
Review: Rather than recap the synopsis found in the Editorial review or one of the other reviews I will simply provide my view of this novel: Although this is a work of fiction, you imagine as you read this book that everything in it happened; that all of it is real. And your soul aches at the level of inhumanity and cruelty that exists in the world. The story begins in the early 1970's in Afghanistan--so immediately you have an idea that things will only go downhill, for a long time. Somehow, Dr. Hosseini successfully weaves in acts of kindness and humanity that are believable and not contrived and saccharine. The choices the various characters must make throughout the story make the choices most of us are faced with seem trivial by comparison. It is one of the most powerful books I have ever read.
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