admin reviewed The attack by Yasmina Khadra
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4 stars
I am quite torn on the rating I would like to give this book but I'm a firm believer in rounding up, so I give this a four.
Even though I do not personally like the main character, Amin, I couldn't help but feel immense sorrow and pity for him. Even though his grief was based on his selfishness, it was still grief. The fact that his wife had betrayed him was a tragedy, although definitely nowhere on the same level as the tragedy that took the lives of 17. I could not blame him for that.
What mostly kept me reading was the yearning to know. Why did this happen? What went wrong and when? Could have this been prevented?
One of the reviewers below thought the book was trying to justify suicide bombing. I disagree. I viewed it as a demonstration of how some people put their whole …
I am quite torn on the rating I would like to give this book but I'm a firm believer in rounding up, so I give this a four.
Even though I do not personally like the main character, Amin, I couldn't help but feel immense sorrow and pity for him. Even though his grief was based on his selfishness, it was still grief. The fact that his wife had betrayed him was a tragedy, although definitely nowhere on the same level as the tragedy that took the lives of 17. I could not blame him for that.
What mostly kept me reading was the yearning to know. Why did this happen? What went wrong and when? Could have this been prevented?
One of the reviewers below thought the book was trying to justify suicide bombing. I disagree. I viewed it as a demonstration of how some people put their whole selves into a cause and that once they've done that, they're too far gone to be persuaded. Reason does nothing for them. Nothing would ever bring them out of that state of mind. To top it all off, they think they're right. And I think this was something that Amin needed to realize but didn't seem to quite get, no matter how many people tried to get it through his thick skull. As soon as his wife saw those documents, it was too late for her. Nothing but time travel would repair the damage that was made. I think that, was a horrible loss.