F. AHMAD

Great Insight into a Changing Time and Place

Revisado: 11-24-21

Loved this book. It offered a glimpse of the sociology and psychology of a people living at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border during a time of great change in that region. Unfortunately, the narrator's performance was horrid and was without any understanding of the material he was reading.

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Excellent Content, Horrible Narration

Revisado: 05-01-21

The content is highly engaging but the narration is choppy and robotic. I urge Audible to release this book again with better narration.

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Twice as long as it should be

Revisado: 03-18-19

The historical stories and their psychological interpretations work very well. But, then, there is a lengthy and repetitive self-help-type section in each chapter that leaves the listener exasperated and finally exhausted. This book could easily be half as long and thus become twice as good.

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Narrator is not a good paraverbal communicator,

Revisado: 11-07-18

For a book on tone in speech and other forms of paraverbal communication, the narrator appears to have a very condescending tone!

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Good case studies - poor narration

Revisado: 08-15-18

The material is good but the narrator sounds like a middle school boy reading a book report.

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Audio and software chapters are not the same.

Revisado: 05-23-18

The chapters that are read out and the chapters in the drop down menu are not the same. This makes it difficult to navigate to parts of the book .

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Refugees & Terrorirism meet Monsters Inc.

Revisado: 01-01-18

I picked this up because I am a fan of his first novel Moth Smoke, which had a lot of astute observations about class divisions in Pakistani society. This one was difficult to get through....depressing, with a plot device popularized by the movie, Monsters Inc. Also disappointed to realize that the author has never encountered the poor and destitute in the first world - they are merely caricatures in this book. Small things like: How do the homeless in the US have cell phone service without an address?, why do the refugees always end up in the most expensive cities in the world?, etc. Required more thought.

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A somewhat familiar story

Revisado: 08-08-17

At least half of the book, which concerns a transgender person of a muslim background, seems to be inspired by a storyline from the 2011 Pakistani movie, Bol. The characters and the backstory of this part, however, are better fleshed out than the movie. The rest of the book concerning the day to day plight of the people of Kashmir, is refreshing and something that generally doesn't see the light of day in the international media, given the concerted policies of the Indian government and the nationalistic fervour it has drummed up in its population. It will be interesting to see the response to this book in the coming months from the Indian press, especially for Roy's portrayal of Modi as "Gujrat's Lalla".

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A timely book with poor narration

Revisado: 07-15-17

Loved the balanced content. it is timely because the author looks beyond the events she has covered- she strives to understand the sociological and political reasons on an individual level. An important book for Muslim and other immigrant parents raising children in the West. There are many memorable lines such as:

"People who see themselves as victims often do not notice when they become oppressors"

"Children inherit their parents' hatred"

"Religion does not radicalize people, people radicalize religion"


The book is filled with Arabic terms and names that the narrator simply cannot pronounce - her pronunciation, while wrong, is not even consist from one sentence to the next. This makes the performance irritating at times.

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Nothing new here.

Revisado: 07-05-17

Most people will know this material by their intuition. Read last chapter first for synopsis.

Some examples are quite good while others are completely inane, like tapping a song melody with your feet for others to recognize!

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