Seeing Afghanistan Through Fiction

Have your read his books yet?

The Kite Runner By Hosseini, Khaled 2003/06 - Doubleday Canada 9780385660068 CHECK CATALOG 2008 Orange Broadband Prize- Reading Group Book of the Year The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner tells a sweeping story of family, love, and friendship against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before, bringing to mind the large canvases of the Russian writers of the nineteenth century. But just as it is old-fashioned in its narration, it is contemporary in its subject-the devastating history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years. ...More

A Thousand Splendid Suns By Hosseini, Khaled 2007/06 - Riverhead Hardcover 9781594489501 CHECK CATALOG Watch This Program BookPage Notable Title Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever-escalating dangers around them--in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul--they form a bond that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. ...More

Read It Before You See It! - The Kite Runner

Many of you have already read The Kite Runner. It's been circulating pretty regularly since we got our first copy. If so, you may be very excited for the movie coming out on 14 December 2007. If you've already read The Kite Runner and enjoyed it, have you read A Thousand Splendid Suns also by Khaled Hosseini? If you don't have time to read them before the movie comes out, try listening to them. We have both of them as audiobooks, and The Kite Runner is also available as a downloadable eAudiobook. Click on the images blow to check our catalog for the availability of various formats for each of these titles.