The novel set in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan, is about one anxious morning in the life of three Pakistani brothers and two of the women they love. This land is also home to a three – dimensional chess board of seemingly endless war – American drones killing the Taliban; Sunni Muslims bombing Shia Muslims; and an underground, generations old fight for independence from the central government. The “Stupidity” from Nabokov’s quote is bespoken in novel by radicalized Sunni Muslims, terminating in a dramatic scene involving one of the brother near the novel’s end (Bhutto, 2010).
“Oppression” and “Crime” are on view in the investigation of the impoverished people of FATA by the Pakistani military. There is “cruelty” in the killing of children – whether by American drones or by local militants, who bomb a government hospital. As for the “soft music” that comes from a character named Mina, the wife of one of the brothers, often singing sweetly at the funerals. She is taken to smashing, to the agony of her husband. If some of this sounds a bit obvious, it is and it can excavate the books to a more precise strengths. There is a brilliant set flashbacks on the experiences of one of the brothers at a college in New Jersey. And there are captivating details, like the gradations of Hajj travel packages offered by the rundown travel agency one of the brother’s visits. Even the passages describing funerals have vivid