L.h.'s Reviews > Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind

Another great read from my Interpreting Young Adult Literature course. I'm more and more impressed by the quality of some of these novels.

This book manages to balance between explicit revelation of a very foreign (to me) faraway culture, and the subtle nuances of character and character relationships -quite excellent.

I was very uncomfortable with the Muslim desert culture of the main character, a heavily patriarchal, classist, and generally difficult culture, but the book shows that culture, and the humanity of its characters, fully and with great humanity. A very good read.