A Thousand Splendid Suns- Spendid!

Back to my solo runs and audiobooks. I had liked the Kite Runner, and was happy to finally be listening to Khaled Hosseini's next book- A Thousand Splendid Suns. I loved it! Maybe because it was about women and maybe because it was about a culture closer to my Indian culture, but the story kept me involved and distracted for more than 11 hours (over many days) from my running woes.
What I liked also was the added experience that audiobooks like these bring, above regular text books. The pronunciation of certain vernacular words, the lilt in delivery that is unique to each culture is not something that one gets while reading a book. The way the narrator pronounced the names Jaleel, Laila are not the way I would have pronounced it in my head while reading. It was an Afghani way of pronouncing the name and added the enjoyable dimension to my experience of the book. Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Giesha, Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time - these are two other audiobooks that stand out in my memory for this kind of experience that the narrator brings to the audiobook.