Here's something you should know about Khaled Hosseini: All his stories have more or less, the same ingredients. It always starts with Afghanistan in its pre-war days. The protagonists are children, guileless and innocent. Then the invasion happens. People separate, the bonds between them torn apa...
Anyone seen the 1997 animated movie, Anastasia? There's a song from that movie that goes perfectly with this book -Dancing bears, painted wingsThings I almost rememberAnd a song someone singsOnce upon a DecemberSomeone holds me safe and warmHorses prance through a silver stormFigures dancing gracefu...
I wasn't at all sure I'd like this book. Yes, I loved A Thousand Splendid Suns to bits, but that was in 2007 and I've grown a lot as a reader since then. And The Kite Runner, which I read a couple years later, I remember as a bit clunky. Happily, I have not outgrown Hosseini, and this book feels rea...
"she was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups" - another great novel by Hosseini, he's a terrific writer, amazingly adept at conveying beauty, sorrow, evil and good...and plumbing the depths of our hearts, and the things we do in the name of love...
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