Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ

I have to admit that I may not be the intended audience for this book. I was already familiar with the suppressing societies, like Saudi Arabia, where similar practices are part of the tradition and the religion.

Here are the two main issues that I had with this book:

1. How did everything change overnight? You are left in the dark and forced to accept that it happened the way it did. There is no smooth transition of the thought process. I failed to observe any abstract psychological themes: I found the plot to be very crude. At one point, the book provides an answer to why the men went along with this brutal practice: the men were bored; so they agreed to violently suppress women!

2. The book felt like a lazy dump of events copied from strictly religious societies. Polygamy, forced marriages, defined lifestyles, executions are sad realities in dictatorships with religious themes; of course, there is no denying that. A bullet point list of the issues with such practices would have served the same purpose because this lengthy tale does no more than showing you a list. Why this book is so highly praised by the feminists is beyond me!