Directorate S is a massive book of close to 700 pages (excluding sources and all that). It is Steve Colls follow up novel to Ghost War. In Directorate S, Steve Coll writes about the complicated relationships between the US, Pakistani, and Afghan … Continue reading
And the Mountains Echoed is Khaled Hosseini’s third novel, published May 21, 2013, and I loved it. As with his previous novels, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, And the Mountains Echoed is set in Afghanistan and focuses … Continue reading
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is about two young women living in Afghanistan whose lives end up intimately entwined during the turmoil that Afghanistan has experienced in the last 30 or 40 years. Mariam was a young bastard … Continue reading
The Kite Runner is Khaled Hosseini’s first novel. Khaled lives in California, where he has lived since 1980, after having been from Afghanistan. The Kite Runner is the story of a boy named Amir who is growing up in Afghanistan … Continue reading
Always Fire and Honey 