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Friday 28 January 2011

NEXT MEETING


Our next  meeting will be Wednesday, Febuary 17, 2011.
If you want to watch the film , you can borrow the DVD from the CFR library .There are three copies available.
The film was released in 2007,and is quite faithfull to the book .   , a critic who writes for the Sunday Times, thinks that  “it is an exemplary piece of storytelling ripped quite beautifully from Khaled Hosseini’s famous book”

Tuesday 11 January 2011

Next month we will be reading The Kite Runner. I am not sure if has been a good choice because , although the book is a good one indeed, some parts of it can be really disturbing. If you want to learn about the book and the author here are some links.
The Kite Runner is a novel by Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, it is Hosseini's first novel, and was adapted into a film of the same name in 2007.The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who befriends Hassan, the son of his father's Hazara servant. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime.
Wikipedia

Khaled Hosseini.

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and History at a large high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Afghan Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then Afghanistan had already witnessed a bloody communist coup and the invasion of the Soviet army. The Hosseinis sought and were granted political asylum in the United States. In September of 1980, Hosseini's family moved to San Jose, California. Hosseini graduated from high school in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University where he earned a bachelor's degree in Biology in 1988. The following year, he entered the University of California-San Diego's School of Medicine, where he earned a Medical Degree in 1993. He completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Hosseini was a practicing internist