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 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!
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