10.30 am Thursday 18 September

Robin Leslie will review A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.

This is the story of two young women in Kabul, whose fates become entwined by their forced marriage to Rashid, an old shoemaker who makes them wear the burka and treats them "worse than a cat". The book is the painful and at times violent, yet ultimately hopeful story of two women's inner lives. Hosseini's narrative captures the intimate details of life in a world where it is a struggle to survive, skillfully inserting this human story into the larger backdrop of recent history.

Talking Books
Beit Oleh America Netanya AACI is extremely grateful to Pitzi Landau for the wonderful donation of 200 books on tape. We have catalogued and shelved the tapes and our members are already enjoying this wonderful addition to the Gura Family Memorial library. Books on tape are a great way to enjoy books for those who have difficulty reading, or for listening to in the background when you don’t have time to read.