The Most Addictive Books of the Last 25 Years
Here they are, in no particular order: the books we passed on to our closest friends,
fought over at book club, lugged with us on every move and think about still. You can
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The Kite Runner
By Khaled Hosseini
400 pages;
Riverhead Books
Because Khaled Hosseini took us
deep into Afghanistan and brought us back forever changed.
A successful Afghan-American novelist named Amir returns
to his homeland to right a wrong he committed in
childhood by betraying a friend. That friend and his wife have been murdered by
the Taliban, and Amir sets himself the task of saving their son. Hosseini
weaves together a complex family story while at the same time painting an
indelible picture of the war-torn country.
— Dawn Raffel
Published 04/03/2015
