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Article: FILM REVIEW: 'The Kite Runner' highlights novel's strengths
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- December 14, 2007
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Anjali Motgi
University Wire
12-14-2007
(Harvard Crimson) (U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- If you haven't heard of Khaled Hosseini's book "The Kite Runner," you've been living under a rock for the last 100-plus weeks that it has been on the "New York Times" best-sellers list. Now a fixture on Starbucks bookshelves across the nation, "The Kite Runner," when first published, was a list of unknowns: a new author's first novel and a story about a culture unfamiliar to most mainstream readers. Subduing those question marks required captivating, original fiction.
That challenge, which the novel met so spectacularly, is analogous to the one the new film of the same name faces. "The Kite Runner" is a ...
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