I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (same guy who wrote The Kite Runner) and while it wasn't bad, it wasn't really on the same level as the Kite Runner.
This one was also set in Afghanistan, amid all the turmoil of the soviets invading, then the warring factions then the "liberation" by the taliban, then the U.S. This one also involved drama and love and redemption. It also contained a character who was spit on and looked at with disgust their entire lives, beaten and betrayed and ultimately dieing for others.
The biggest difference was how the story jumped back and forth between the two main characters. I never felt like i knew either of them nearly as well as the main character from The Kite Runner.
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