I found "In the Country of Men" a bit disapointing as I was reading it. Perhaps it was not fair to read this book after "Three Cups of Tea", "Thousand Splendid Suns" and Benezir Bhutto's book. The writing was beautiful and author captured the voice of the 9 year old character who tells the story.

The main difference and I think what I found disappointing was this book highlighted how different my culture (western) is from his culture. There were cruel parts of the character's personality and a coldness that made it hard to sympathize with his plight.

All in all I did like the book, I just found it a bit disheartening.