Article: Blowing in the Wind.(Arts)('The Kite Runner')(Movie review)

Byline: Lorraine Ali

The film adaptation of 'The Kite Runner' is a model of cross-cultural collaboration.

Khaled Hosseini's 2003 novel "The Kite Runner" introduced Western readers to an Afghanistan beyond the Soviet invasion, Osama bin Laden and U.S. military strikes. By focusing on the complicated relationship between an Afghan boy and his father, and the bond between two childhood friends in Kabul, it illuminated the humanity behind the politics and showed the world that Afghans laugh as well as cry. The book has since sold more than 8 million copies worldwide -- not including millions of bootleg editions in such languages as Farsi.

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