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The Runner (2003) Persepolis (2003) Khaled Hosseini Marjane Satrapi Traces the unlikely The great-granddaughter of friendship of a wealthy 's last emperor and the Afghan youth and a The Pearl That Broke its daughter of ardent Marxists servant's son, in a tale that Shell (2014) describes growing up in spans the final days of Nadia Hashimi in a country plagued 's monarchy In , 2007, with a by political upheaval and vast through the atrocities of the drug-addicted father and no contradictions between public present day. Exquisitely brothers, Rahima and her and private life. A powerful painful at times, this is a sisters can only sporadically auto-biographical account in book readers won’t easily attend school and rarely graphic novel format. forget. leave the house, and their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, Crescent (2003) which allows young Rahima Diana Abu Jaber to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of Populated by colorful and marriageable age. As a son, she can attend Reading Lolita in Tehran memorable characters, school, go to the market, and chaperone her (2003) Crescent explores the older sisters. Azar Nafisi universal themes of love The author describes growing and loyalty to countries old up in the Islamic Republic of and new, to those left Iran and the group of young behind, and to tradition. It A Thousand Splendid women who came together at is a multidimensional love Suns (2007) her home in secret every story set in the Arab- Khaled Hosseiini Thursday to read and discuss American community of Los A breathtaking story set forbidden works of Western Angeles. against the volatile events literature. of Afghanistan's last thirty years-from the Soviet inva- sion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding that puts the violence, fear, hope and Snow (2002) faith of this country in Orhan Pamuk intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two (2013) After years of lonely generations of characters brought jarringly Khaled Hosseini political exile, Turkish poet together by the tragic sweep of war, where The best-selling author of Ka returns to Istanbul to personal lives-the struggle to survive, raise a and A attend his mother's funeral family, find happiness-are inextricable from the Thousand Splendid Suns and learns about a series of history playing out around them. presents a story inspired by suicides among pious girls human love, how people take forbidden to wear head- care of one another and how scarves. choices resonate through subsequent generations.