Afghanistan has not had the most peaceful of times during the last 30 years or so. In 1973, a coup deposed the last Shah, replacing him with a president, Mohammed Daoud Khan. Khan was deposed and murdered just five years later when Communists seized power and created the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, aligned with the USSR. In 1979, regional instability led to a Soviet invasion, which was opposed and ultimately repelled by a Muslim force, the mujahedin. After the expulsion of the Soviets, control of the country fell to the mujahedin and ultimately the Taliban, a repressive fundamentalist Islamic regime. By 2001 there was again regime change as the US-led coalition invaded, deposed the taliban, and occupied much of the country. That’s at least four regime changes, two invasions and untold thousands of people killed, all in barely a generation—not particularly stable!
Set against this destructive backdrop is The Kite Runner. The story begins in the early 1970s, when Amir......
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