A play based on the popular novel, “The Kite Runner,” is now on Broadway. For one of the actors, the storyline of a family fleeing Afghanistan for safety in the United States, mirrors her own life.
A play based on the popular novel, “The Kite Runner,” is now on Broadway. For one of the actors, the storyline of a family fleeing Afghanistan for safety in the United States, mirrors her own life.
Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 tearjerker novel “The Kite Runner” has no shortage of terrible traumas: deaths, beatings, a rape, the disastrous takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban. To say the very least, ...
When The Kite Runner was originally published in 2003, the U.S. was still in the early stages of the war in Afghanistan. Our collective consciousness hovered over the trauma of 9/11 and fear of the ...