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Title: Interesting background on life in Afghanistan; hokey, melodramatic plot
Review: The title of this review pretty much sums up where I stand. If you can borrow a copy, it's worth beginning this book. I very much enjoyed the back story, with its details of day-to-day life in Afghanistan in the 1970s and 1980s, before and after the Soviet invasion. I might be willing to read more non-fiction from Hosseini, but the man is no novelist. The plot is pure soap opera and gets more and more implausible (and irritating) as the book proceeds.
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