![]() ![]() Everyone in the new novel finds themself morally compromised at some point. The Kite Runner's Hassan, for example, is, as Hosseini puts it, "a lovely guy and you root for him and you love him but he's not complicated". Their characters are the kind EM Forster might have classified as "flat" rather than "round". This isn't how the world appeared in Hosseini's fable-like previous books. You have a very painful rupture at the beginning and then this tearful reconciliation at the end, except the revelations and the reconciliations you're granted aren't the ones you're expecting. Hosseini though, puts it simply: "The book is kind of like a fairytale turned on its head. ![]() The agony of the siblings' separation echoes down generations and across continents. ![]() The answer – a desperate father is on his way to Kabul to sell one of his children – provides the genesis for the novel's many narratives. And I was like: who are these people? Where are they going?" So, with this background, suddenly this image came out of the blue, delivered with pristine, perfect clarity. "People are terribly afraid and they lose their kids. "I heard these stories about what a harrowing ordeal wintertime is for families in Afghanistan," he says. ![]()
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