Review By: Seemark Review Date: 07 Mar 2009
My Country My Life' covers all the major and minor events in the life of Advani, like his joining the RSS, trauma of Partition, meeting with Atal Bihari Vajpayee, days of the Jana Sangh, Emergency, Ayodhya, Rath Yatra, his stint in the government as Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Agra Summit, Kargil, Terrorism, Controversy surrounding Jinnah remark, and so on. The best part of the book is that Advani has taken the perspective of a participant, and not a historian, while writing it.
The second half of the book in Afghanistan moves the book away from Hassan and Amir to Afghan politics and social problems and the book slackens. Amir's inability to have a child appears to be “conveniently" resolved in Hindi film style, by the ever-obliging Jeeves, Hassan, who dies leaving his child an orphan. Too neat a device, it fails to convince. If Hosseini had steered away from such “plot holes", and stayed away from showing the good and the bad political guys in Afghanistan, the book is a masterpiece in fiction. Hosseini is a story-teller par excellence, and one awaits his next book with impatience. A fine book that sensitizes us on how much we are all so alike despite being so different.
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