Product 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...read more

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Product Description: In this collection of essays and stories written by fifty-three juniors and seniors at June Jordan School for Equity in San Francisco, young writers explore the role of myth in our world today. Students write pieces of fiction and nonfiction, retelling old myths, creating new ones, celebrating everyday heroes, and recognizing the stories that their families have told over and over...read more

Product Description: Unabridged CDs • 14 CDs, 16 hours From the author of the #1 national bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian and the schools he has established.

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Product Description: Hija ilegitima de un rico hombre de negocios, Mariam se cria con su madre en una modesta vivienda a las afueras de Herat. A los quince anos, su vida cambia drasticamente cuando su padre la envia a Kabul a casarse con Rashid, un hosco zapatero treinta anos mayor que ella...read more

Product Description: After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today...read more

Empenado en demostrarle a su padre que ya es todo un hombre, el joven Amir se propone ganar la competicion anual de cometas de la forma que sea, incluso a costa de su inseparable Hassan, un hazara de clase inferior que ha sido su sirviente y companero de juegos desde la mas tierna infancia. Despues de tantos anos de haberse defendido mutuamente de todos los peligros imaginables, Amir se aprovecha de la fidelidad de su amigo, poniendo en riesgo uno de los tesoros mas preciados del ser humano: la amistad. Cometas en el cielo, uno de los exitos mas resonantes de los ultimos tiempos, es la conmovedora historia de dos padres y dos hijos, de su amistad y de como la casualidad puede marcar un hito inesperado en nuestro destino. / The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons-their love, their sacrifices, their lies. A sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic.

Product Description: The Kite Runner, by Afghanistan-born, American Khaled Hosseini, confronts readers with sometimes difficult truths and deep moral issues of loyalty, kinship and faith. Amir and Hassan are inseparable childhood friends in Afghanistan, though Amir is the son of a rich man and Hassan is a lower caste servant...read more

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Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son, in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.