Michele R. (englishtchr) reviewed Thunder Over Kandahar (Audio Book Unabridged Ex Lib) on + 15 more book reviews
This book is well-written and well-read (audio version). Informative, educational, insightful, entertaining, and compelling. As a reader of up to ten books a month, I rarely find one that I want to reread and almost never find one I need to keep. Thunder of Kandahar is one of those.
The narrator is 14-year-old Afghani, reared in England, whose well-educated parents returned to Afghanistan to help their society in its troubled culture. Yasmine's perspective allows the Western reader to gain understanding, despite bafflement, of the Afghani people, customs, and dealings with the Taliban.
The reader walks through the streets, classrooms, villages, and jungles with Jasmine and her best friend Tamanna, experiences the tradition of arranged marriages, the confinement of women in head-to-toe clothing, how young boys are taught to treat women and how the Taliban indoctrinates its youngest recruits.
The narrator is 14-year-old Afghani, reared in England, whose well-educated parents returned to Afghanistan to help their society in its troubled culture. Yasmine's perspective allows the Western reader to gain understanding, despite bafflement, of the Afghani people, customs, and dealings with the Taliban.
The reader walks through the streets, classrooms, villages, and jungles with Jasmine and her best friend Tamanna, experiences the tradition of arranged marriages, the confinement of women in head-to-toe clothing, how young boys are taught to treat women and how the Taliban indoctrinates its youngest recruits.
