Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner

Often quite brutal in its depiction of events in Afganistan; whether factual of not, they only succeed in making the book appear lopsided - bleak and negative. Supposed to be a story of redemption but it descended too far into the darkness for me, I could not crawl back into the light.
Regardless of its subject matter, the craft of the writing is seriously impressive carrying both authority and authenticity  of an autobiography despite it being fiction.
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