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Andrea
May 24, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: around-the-world-2017, challenge, fiction-foreign-locale
Yet another masterpiece of storytelling from Khaled Hosseini. I started reading this when it was originally published and for some reason it didn't grab me. But now I realise if I'd just pushed on for a few more pages, I would have been gripped, because that's what happened this time around.

As with his previous novels, the underlying story here is really quite heartbreaking, but where this one differs a bit is that at least half of the story is set in the West. Hosseini sets the action in Afghan ...more
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Jan 03, 2014 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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This is one of those books I'm not quite sure how I feel about after reading it. I mean, I enjoyed it. Mostly. I liked how the stories were woven together, and the disparate characters touching briefly in the author's web. I didn't get story-satisfaction from it; this was something else, playing with the form of a novel and a story, bending it and making it sort of jagged and like a fragmented mirror. Clever, conceptual, but I personally did not enjoy it. (Also, what happened to Iqbal? Loose end ...more
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May 24, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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