Perfect subject-matter for performance at the world’s first Theatre of Sanctuary, A Thousand Splendid Suns comes to The Quarry Theatre where Leo Owen caught the show ...

The Secret Life of Bees is a novel by American author Sue Monk Kidd. Set in 1964, it is a coming-of-age story that details on ...

The Kite Runner” is one of the most challenged books in schools due to a rape scene and discussion of topics such as suicide.

8. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Another by Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner is set in 1970s Afghanistan and follows 12-year-old Amir who wishes to win the local kite-fighting tournament. His ...

Nader believes “The Kite Runner” is a story that touches every human being. “It’s a father-son story, a love story, a story of redemption,” he said. “There are 45 million Afghan people ...

The book follows a young Afghan boy named Amir and his friend Hassan through ... To understand a book like The Kite Runner in the way it is intended, the information must be engaged with realistically ...

Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel “The Kite Runner” was a sensation when it came out in 2003. Following one Afghan boy through the overthrow of the monarchy in Afghanistan, the Soviet Invasion ...

Khaled Hosseini’s ‘The Kite Runner’ was the first novel written in English by an Afghan author. | Riverhead Books/Amazon (book cover); Mental Floss (background) 3. September 11th and the war ...

a generation of people who fled the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan to the U.S. and started over, watching painfully as their former homeland is torn apart. "The Kite Runner," based on Khaled ...