Miami Dade College, Kendall Campus

Department of English and Communications

 

Cash Prizes: Kite Runner Essay Contest...Get BARAN from Library Reserve to view at home...New documentary DAUGHTERS OF AFGHANISTAN on Reserve at Library...Ask for LOOKING EAST: PORTRAITS BY STEVE MCCURRY on Reserve...Check out LUKE POWELL'S photos on this web site...Look for THEMES for essays on this web site...Read THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL from Reserve Collection...Download KITE RUNNER Discussion Questions...

 

Launched in January 2007, A GOOD READ! is an initiative to bring together members of our academic community by virtue of their reading the same book at the same time. Discussions in the classroom can spill over into discussions on campus and onto the blog created for just that purpose. Sparked by reading and discussion, the curious can find articles and resources on this website; and those, in turn, will lead to more. Activities associated with the shared reading are posted to the right.

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SPRING 2007 BOOK SELECTION

           

This semester’s selection is The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The story begins in Kabul, Afghanistan in the peaceful years before the coup and the Soviet invasion. It is about a boy, who feels the presence of the mother he never knew in the books she left behind; and his father—a successful man, larger than life, a man’s man; and the son of the father’s lifelong servant, who is the boy’s playmate and friend, illiterate, but smart and sensitive and good.

 

The boy is loved by his father, but he does not feel it--and by the servant’s son, but he does not value it.

 

In striving to win his father’s approval, the boy betrays the servant’s son and must live with that betrayal all of his life.

 

Now an internist in California, the author, Khaled Hosseini, was a boy in Kabul during the years about which he writes.

 

We think you will find The Kite Runner to be A Good Read!

 


 

 

THE AUTHOR Khaled Hosseini is an internist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Calendar

  

Essay Contest

on The Kite Runner

Deadline: March 12, 2007

For Details Click Here

 

  • Kite Flying Contest

  • Wed., March 21, 2007

  • 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

  • Kendall Campus

  • Soccer Field

 

Movie Screenings

 

Wed., Jan. 24, 12:00 noon,

The Search for the Afghan

Girl, Rm 8249

 

Wed., Jan. 31, 12:00 noon,

The Lost Treasures of Afghanistan, Rm 8249

 

Wed., Feb. 07, 12:00 noon,

Baran, Rm 6120

 

Wed., Feb. 14, 12:00 noon,

Kandahar, Rm 8249

 

Wed., Feb. 21, 12:00 noon,

Osama, Rm 8249

 

Wed., Feb. 28, 12:00 noon,

Afghanistan Revealed,

Rm 8249

 

Tues., Mar. 13, 12:45 pm,

Turtles Can Fly, Rm 6120

 


 

 

Books on Reserve

 

Books on Reserve

    MDC Library

 

A Bed of Red Flowers

    Nelofer Paziria

 

Afghanistan: A Short History

    Martin Ewans

 

The Places in Between

    Rory Stewart

 

The Sewing Circles of Herat

    Christina Lamb

 

The Storyteller of Kabul

    Sharira Shah

 

The Swallows of Kabul

    Yasmina Khadra

 



 



                                      

 

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