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Book Reviews
In Ackerman’s debut novel, young Aziz Iqtbal and his older brother, Ali, live in the remote agriculture hamlet of Sperkai, Afghanistan, until a mortar round fired by the Taliban leader Garzan destroys their home and family.... Ackemna’s novel is bleak and uncompromising, a powerful war story that borders on the noir.
Publishers Weekly
The lives of the characters are immensely complicated by the violence and political situation that surround them, and along the way, we witness their wrestling with the compromises they feel compelled to make.... Ackerman...does justice to the political and moral difficulties of contemporary Afghanistan.
Kirkus Reviews