{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Review of \"The Kite Runner\" movie","author_name":"Robert Maier","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article798.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article798.html'\u003EReview of \"The Kite Runner\" movie\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Kite Runner\u201d was the first book I read about Afghanistan, before I spent five weeks in Kabul in the summer of 2004.  I raced through it, because I generally prefer non-fiction to fiction.  The plot depends on a big secret revealed at the end, and that\u2019s just not my cup of tea.  To me, the suspense of reading unfolding history seems more honest than a formula melodrama.  But the setting of Afghanistan from the hey-days of the 1970s to the Talibs was unique and relevant, especially (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}