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Kabul
by M. E. Hirsh
from St. Martin's Griffin

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• An excellent introduction
  This book was exactly what I was looking for, and lives up to everything you read in other reviews. I did not read it when it was originally released (as a 6 year old at the time it was a little above my reading level). Instead, I chose it recently because I wanted to read a book about Afghanistan that was published without the knowledge of how events in this country would unfold. The author does a wonderful job of pulling you into the lives of the central family while vividly portraying national events. I... more info

• Fantastic Read!
  Highly recommend this book. In light of recent history, it's even more interesting as well a very good history lesson. The characters are alive and well developed, and it does make "Kite Runner" pale in comparison. I've learned more about Afghanistan and its political history from this book than all the newspapers I've read and TV shows I've watched in the past 8 years.
  Rich story, excellent read.

• TURMOIL FOR FAMILY & COUNTRY
  Filled with remarkable historical detail and compelling drama, Kabul is rife with intrigue and combines concentrated political insights with a dramatic look at one family, the Anwari's, as they are caught-up in an electrifying and potentially lethal state of affairs, following the 1973 overthrow of the last Afghan King.
  We are given a front row seat to the churning turmoil fermenting within the Anwari family as each of the three children, Mangal, Tor & Saira, pursues their individual political... more info

• Forget "Kite Runner." This is the book to read . . .
  This terrific novel about Afghanistan in the 1970s makes "The Kite Runner" seem plodding and shallow. It is a family saga with its own "spoiled prince" character, full of political intrigue in the years leading up to the Soviet invasion, and its closing chapters involve not one but two daring rescue missions. The scope of this 440+ page novel is as far ranging and ambitious as Boris Pasternak's "Dr. Zhivago."
  The fortunes and fate of the well-to-do Anwari family are linked to the rise and fall of... more info

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