Kite Runner Readalikes
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 | Ali, Samina | | Madras on Rainy Days | | Religious clashes and civil unrest factor into this powerful, atmospheric novel of modern-day India. |
|  | Courtenay, Bryce | | Power of One | | A boy called Peekay, born under apartheid, and against all odds, vowed to survive-he would become welterweight champion of the world, he would dream heroic dreams. |
|  | Firouz, Anahita | | In the Walled Gardens | | As the political situation in Tehran becomes increasingly explosive a couple find that their volatile love assumes new and threatening implications. |
|  | Hosseini, Khaled | | A Thousand Splendid Suns | | Two generations of characters are brought together by war as they struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness. |
|  | Khadra,Yasmina | | The Swallows of Kabul | | The plight of the countless Afghanis who endured the prolonged medieval code of conduct when the Taliban was in power is explored. |
|  | Lahiri, Jhumpa | | The Namesake | | The themes of the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations are explored. |
|  | Liu, Aimee | | Flash House | | A wife struggles to find her husband after he disappears into the back country of Communist China in 1949. |
|  | Ondaatje, Michael | | Anil’s Ghost | | Anil’s mission to return home to Sri Lanka after 15 years is not a sentimental journey but a human rights investigation. |
|  | Philip Hensher’s | | The Mulberry Empire: Or the Two Virtuous Journeys of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan | England’s relationship with Afghanistan, began with the triumphant arrival of the Army of the Indus in 1839 but ended three years later in rout and massacre.
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|  | Seierstad, Asne | | The Bookseller of Kabul | | After the fall of the Taliban, a bookseller named Sultan Khan allowed a Western journalist to move into his home and experience firsthand his family’s life. |
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