Would like to recommend a book: "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini.
It's not a masterpiece. Rather "light" reading. But you will find it difficult to put it down once you've started reading it.
The story is about friendship and about the relationship between father and son. Most of it is set in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion and later during the control by the Talibans.
Worth reading if you just want to relax for a day, because that's all the time it takes to finish the book.
Read that a movie, released in 2007, has been made from the book. Haven't seen that though, but it seems to have gotten some good reviews.
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Yeah and they had to evacuate the Afgani families whose sons were in the movie after death threats.
There is apparantly a male-boy "rape" scene in the movie which hasn't gone down too well with some of the afgani public
Really, I hadn't heard that. That's horrible.
The rape scene is there in the book also. It's a very hard part of the book to read actually. It's well written, if you can call it that.
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