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The Taliban Cricket Club (2012)

by Timeri N. Murari(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1443410640 (ISBN13: 9781443410649)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

HarperCollins Canada

review 1: I enjoyed reading this book because of the setting in Afghanistan pre-9/11 under the Taliban. The protaganist is a young woman who was schooled in India, and then worked as a journalist in Afghanistan until the Taliban came in. She and her brother, cousins, form a cricket team. Implausible and the dialogue is not well written, BUT I enjoyed the book! It is a cute story. Easy to read and interesting to learn about the harsh time.
review 2: The irony of this book's title is what drew me to it: it's almost unimaginable to think of the brutal Taliban regime promoting a staid and gentlemanly game like cricket. However, for a brief time in the 1990s, apparently the Taliban actually sponsored a cricket team in order to appear more "civilized" to the world. This ... moregripping suspense novel features a young woman who had learned to play cricket in India where her father had been an Afghan diplomat. Rukhsana teaches the game to her male relatives in Afghanistan--the only sex allowed to play cricket there--in hopes that they will win the prize: a chance to leave the country permanently. Doing this imperils her already extremely restrictive and hazardous life under the Taliban. The fact that one of the most brutal of the warlords persists in demanding that she marry him against her will is another suspenseful element of many. Like Khaled Hosseini's novels about Afghanistan, this one is a well-written, quick-moving vehicle for showing westerners what life for Afghan women is like under an extreme fundamentalist regime. I couldn't put it down and read it in one sitting. less

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