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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128029.A_Thousand_Splendid_Suns">A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/569.Khaled_Hosseini">Khaled Hosseini</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:57:09 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[My review from the Los Angeles Times Book Review:<br/><br/>Afghani-born novelist Khaled Hosseini enthralled readers with “The Kite Flyer,” his first novel, which was constructed around the friendship between  Amir, a privileged Pashtun Sunni born in Kabul, and his boyhood friend and servant Ha...<a 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          <body><![CDATA[a classic study of justice and betrayal]]></body>
        
    
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