The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul: The heart-warming and uplifting international bestseller

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At first I was irritated by the 'let me work in lots of foreign words and explain these different cultural viewpoints to you' tone.

INCLUDES RECIPES, READING GROUP QUESTIONS AND AUTHOR INTERVIEW --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. The author has described the emotions of every character so beautifully and in such detail that the entire time I imagined myself sitting in one corner of the cafe, watching them with my naked eye. I guess if you are a Romance reader that enjoys a book about Western women finding true love with war camp followers of the military or learning a life lesson about advancing their own careers and usefulness without a boyfriend's love, depending on the character (except the one Western woman who is strong and principled from the start, no boyfriends, who gets killed off) while experiencing exotic sights and sounds that lightly touch their conscious minds so that sometimes they want to organize a meeting, this will be a five star read for you. But ultimately her cozy sentimentality undercuts the elements of harsh realism, as if Maeve Binchy had written The Kite Runner. There's so much more power, energy and zeal that could have been channeled into the female protagonists.If for no other reason, I encourage readers to pick up this book for what they will learn about current conditions in Afghanistan. Opened by Sunny, an American who came to Kabul following love, it plays host to a collective of dynamic and unusual characters. I thought widow might have been enough of a status to ensure some respect but apparently there are no credible story tellers if the man in the equation is dead and many would be unwilling to believe Yazmina’s story because she is the only one who was around to tell it, having been taken from her family.

Yazmina, a young pregnant woman stolen from her remote village and now abandoned on Kabul's violent streets . I cannot reconcile my personal reactions to the dreadful horrors of being a female in Afghanistan and the author's 'Pollyanna' view of ordinary Afghan life (despite an on-going war, episodic as it appears to be).I must say that the story caused a certain amount of tension, which meant that I stayed up late to finish it. She's runs a coffee house that welcomes Afghans, Americans, UN workers, and employs a fascinating mixture of people. When Yazmina, a young Afghan from a remote village, is kidnapped and left on a city street pregnant and alone, Sunny welcomes her into the café and gives her a home - but Yazmina hides a secret that could put all their lives in jeopardy.