By Kaled Hosseini
The author grew up in Kabul and emigrated with him family to the United States after the Communists took over, and before the Taliban came along. He drew on his own experiences and heritage to weave an amazingly beautiful tail about the life of a man raised in Afghanstan before the wars came, and how he dealt with his own personal wars.
What I loved about this story is that it is told in a culture that we Westerners know very little about. We know only about Afghanistan from the news stories. I was fascinated with the descriptions of Kabul before the wars, with the customs and beliefs of the Afghans, and with the view of the wars from the Afghan point of view. In this time it is very important to understand this culture better and for that reason alone this story is worth the read.
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