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Announcing the 2005-2006 CORE Book

The Kite Runner
By Khaled Hosseini

 
This is an epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes readers from the final days of Afghanistan’s monarchy to the atrocities of the present.  Chosen as a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year and at the top of the New York Time’s Best Seller lists for weeks, this extraordinary novel includes themes of honor, guilt, fear and redemption.  It is a powerful tale that allows readers to learn more about the Taliban and the experience of becoming a first generation American.  

World History, Western Civilization, Psychology, Sociology, and Literature classes will benefit from including The Kite Runner in their curriculum. 

About the Author:  Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1965.  His family was relocated to Paris, France in 1976 where his father was assigned a diplomatic post at the Afghan embassy.  When the communist coup occurred in Afghanistan in 1980, the family asked for and was granted political asylum in the U.S.  He moved to San Jose, CA with his family. Hosseini graduated from the UC San Diego School of Medicine and has been in practice as an internist since 1996.  The Kite Runner is his first novel. Check out the author’s website at www.khaledhosseini.com/  for more information.  Discussion questions are available at www.penguin.com/guides.

Copies of the book are available at the Iowa Lakes Community College bookstore.
 

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