Telling this story from the point of view of the perpetrator's anguished, bewildered spouse is an inspired idea, and it may work very well in Khadra's book. Suliman, however, is the wrong actor for the job.... His performance isn't bad, exactly, but it remains on the text's surface level, communicating one emotion at a time—whatever the scene seems to obviously call for, whether that's anger, grief, confusion, or (what the hell) more anger.
Mike D'Angelo
junio 20, 2013