Mila

name is misleading - only third part of book is about Donner Party. although it was not a disappointment -the story of a girl growing up without her parents in 1890s california. fascinating slice of life.

(also from this book I learned that Pony express was real Pony express. Fascinating. Real ponies.)

I have unexplainable antipathy to Hosseini's books. Too much pain and horror for the one page of the text.

Why is it so popular and “the best novel in Russian language”? I am confused.
It is beatifully naked Chekhovian language, it is heart-touching memories of a child of memories of his ancestors of Russia that we lost. And that is all.

Dickensian humor and language without Dickens' comforting happy end.

couldn´t stop until i was finished. reading like a poem. perfect rythm of words.