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(0)Khaled Hosseini
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara--a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was...
4) Sea prayer
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey ... the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
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Series
Publisher
Salamandra Publicacions Y Edicions
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
382 pages : 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"La decision de una humilde familia campesina de dar una hija en adopcion a un matrimonio adinerado es el fundamento sobre el que Khaled Hosseini autor de las inolvidables Cometas en el cielo y Mil soles esplendidos ha tejido este formidable tapiz en el que se entrelazan los destinos de varias generaciones y se exploran las infinitas formas en que el amor, el valor, la traicion y el sacrificio desempenan un papel determinante en las vidas de las personas."...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Español
Description
Un fenómeno imparable: con más de 23 millones de ejemplares vendidos en 54 lenguas y un millón en castellano, Cometas en el cielo puede considerarse un clásico contemporáneo.
Sobre el telón de fondo de un Afganistán respetuoso de sus ricas tradiciones ancestrales, la vida en Kabul durante el invierno de 1975 se desarrolla con toda la intensidad, la pujanza y el colorido de una ciudad confiada en su futuro
...Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
Una conmovedora historia de amistad y supervivencia entre dos mujeres afganas de orígenes muy dispares.
Superando con creces el rotundo éxito de Cometas en el cielo, la segunda novela de Khaled Hosseini saltó de inmediato al primer puesto en todos los países donde se ha publicado. Nueva demostración del asombroso instinto narrativo del autor, el libro cuenta la historia de amistad entre dos mujeres cuyos destinos se entrelazan
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after twenty years of living in America, Amir returns...
Author
Language
English
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Description
From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian’s efforts to promote peace through education
In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake...
In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake...