A review by shirleytupperfreeman
The Consequences of Love by Sulaiman Addonia

Wow - this was intense. Like The Kiterunner, I had to put it down for awhile part-way through but I'm glad I picked it up again. As children, both the author and the novel's main character moved from a refugee camp in the Sudan to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The novel tells the story of forbidden love between the refugee and a young woman completely veiled and identifiable only by her pink shoes. The description of the warped culture which develops when a society chooses to keep color, beauty, softness, love, anything 'feminine' hidden behind veils and walls, is very powerful.