Despite its constant presence in the media for the last 13 years, there are still very few people who would be able to explain what is happening in Afghanistan and how it came to be this way. Even fewer people have the skill to make the explanation interesting.
When The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini was released in 2003, it took the world by storm and gave its readers a fascinating education in the history of Afghanistan. Furthermore, it grasped each of us by the scruff of the neck and said ‘look – this is the reality that our fellow humans are facing’.
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