Having just completed Khaled Hosseini’s novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, the news of bombing in Kandahar arrives with even more pain than it might otherwise provoke. Hosseini captures the dislocation and deeply human struggle of life in Afghanistan through the fall of the Soviet-backed government, the Taliban years and the early days of the Karzai [...]
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