This is not a book for everyone. Considering the book had a rape scene within the first few chapters I think most non-readers will pretty quickly put it down. Personally, I was able to get past it because of the social context. If you can get past all the painful things he does in the name of his culture it is a really good book. 
 One of the issues I did have with this book, was the assumption that so many women would be able to get past rape with the person that raped them and instead fall in love with them. I think this situation would be very traumatic and more effort should have gone into portraying that and the effort involved in getting past it. I think a perfect example of this is the recent story about the girl in Morocco that was forced to marry her rapist and killed herself as a result.