The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini was not written to profit by America’s involvement in Afghanistan (I hope), but it certainly gained a great deal of attention due to U.S. presence there. I imagine that if Americans weren’t in the country in great numbers, The Kite Runner would have been relegated to the lower shelves of [...]
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