Middle-East Fever 2

The book I'm reading right now is called 'Nach Afghanistan kommt Gott nur noch zum Weinen- Die Geschichte der Shirin-Gol' (Translation: Crying Afghanistan- 哭泣的阿富汗). It's the true story of an Afghan woman's life and is recorded by an iranian lady who encountered her in a rafugee camp in Afghanistan when shooting a documentary for German TV program. Shirin-Gol is the Afghan woman's name meaning a fragrant flower, and the whole story is written in her tone and through her eyes to see the true face of wars.

The curiosity makes me keep turning pages but the more I read the deeper my heart drops down. The unequal position in men and women is the first test they have to encounter ever since they were born. Women are strickly restrained from exposing face and parts of body, from talking in public, from looking up to men's faces, from reading and education... etc. When male power rules the society- during wars or in illiterate ages, women's position gets even lower and being treated like meat sacks. The words vividly describe how they managed to live and nurture kids under poorness, sickness, or maim, how they escaped from bombs, bullets, or mines, and how they survived from rapes again and again and gave birth of rapers' kids. While no matter what happens, they pray to Allah and expect Allah offers them some answers.

After finishing this book, I guess there'll be no more middle-east story for a while. My next book will be.... wait a min... I can't believe I've run out of new books!! Hm... gotta go shopping again...