mgraziano

This book was lent to me by my boyfriend's mother, and it's truly beautiful but completely and utterly heartbreaking. A woman loses her family home because of a clerical error, an Iranian family who are looking to improve their life, and a policeman who falls in love - these people all come together and create a tragedy based on misunderstanding and pride. You want to crawl into the book and stop them all from hurting each other, but you just can't. The language is wonderful and the characters extremely well-drawn, but it was so sad that I eventually could only read it one chapter at a time because it was too much.

2020-08-14 23:44