Back/Inside Cover:"This powerful first novel...tells a story of fierce cruelty and fierce yet redeeming love. Both transform the life of Amir, Khaled Hosseini's privileged young narrator, who comes o fage during the last peaceful days of the monarchy, just before his country's revolution and its invasion by Russian forces. But political events, even as dramatic as the ones that are presented in The Kite Runner, are only a part of this story. In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini gives us a vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long his people have been struggling to triumph over the forces of violence-forces that continue to threaten them even today." --The New York Times Book Review
"A Powerful book...no frills, no nonsense, just hard, spare prose...an intimate account of family and friendship, betrayal and salvation that requires no atlas or translation to engage and enlighten us. Parts of The Kite Runner are raw and excruciating to read, yet the book in its entirety is lovingly written." --The Washington Post Book World
My Thoughts:
This was a great school book and would have been a good book to read outside of class too. This is one of the very very rare books I've come across that even though we disected it a lot I never grew tired of the story. This is a great book that never got old for me.
Reccommendations for...:
High schoolers looking for a good, modern book to read. It really opens your eyes to what is going on over in Afghanistan.
Price, genre, publisher, info:
US $14
CAN ???
Fiction
Penguin Group
http://www.riverheadbooks.com/
http://www.penguin.com/
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