The Age of Orphans (Hardcover)

from PghDragonMan

Laleh Khadivi's The Age of Orphans, gives many Americans another view into the Middle East, much as Khaled Hosseini's works have. This time, however, the country is Iran and the struggle is over the Kurdish People. I much admired Hosseini's fluid style, but I found Khadivi's prose even more poeti...

from embarczynski

There is so much brutality in this book. Lives are destroyed. The story is sad and speaks to a loss of identity in the face of a dominant culture. Despite the fact that I put the book down a few times and almost didn't return, I was happy that I finished it. There is something poetic in the way t...

from zibilee

Reza Khourdi is a typical Kurdish boy: traipsing among the rooftops of his hometown, wishing he were following in the footsteps of the older men of the tribe and longing for the comfort of his mother. All that changes when Reza joins the elder men on a trip out to the far desert for his circumcis...

from TrishNYC

This is a bit of a hard book to review. There were times while reading it that I nearly stopped because it got a bit hard to swallow. But I persevered and I believe the effort was worth it. Reza Pejman Khourdi is a Kurdish young boy who is violently conscripted into the Iranian army after his fat...

from jennbisk

This book is written in a very poetic style that I found detracted from the story. I found it hard to relate to the characters because the language left me confused and the constantly changing narrators never gave me time to feel like I knew any of the characters. I was horrified by the events th...