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Article: 'The Kite Runner': A Soaring Tale of Hardship & Hope
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- The Washington Post
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- December 14, 2007
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When it was published in 2003, "The Kite Runner" could not have
been better timed, bringing the life and culture of Afghanistan to
an America largely wary of the country with which it had gone to war
just two years before. Now, Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel and
favorite of book clubs everywhere has been given the screen
adaptation it richly deserves in Marc Forster's film of the same
name.
Fans of Hosseini's spare but densely detailed book will most
likely cheer the fealty and sensitivity Forster has shown toward the
original text, which deeply affected millions of readers with its
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