The Carpet Weaver
An amazing read. A perfect portrayal of homosexual love amid the political turmoil of Afghanistan and the struggle to survive, inspired by the hope of reuniting with a lost soulmate. Sadat’s apposite choice of words well articulates the emotional as well as the physical tensions and reactions of a boy struggling and coming to terms with the fact of being a homosexual in an Islamic world, at the time time falling in love, trying to balance this hidden side