But the narrator wonders if his people will ever transcend the tribalism that continues to threaten Afghanistan's integrity. The novel portrays the Afghans as an independent and proud people who for decades have defended their country against one invader after another. The first novel to be written in English by an Afghan, it spans the period from before the 1979 Soviet invasion until the reconstruction following the fall of the odious Taliban. The Kite Runner, a novel by Afghan-American writer Khaled Hosseini, takes this clarification one step further. It needed food, not vengeance sympathy, not hate. It pleaded with Americans to realize that Afghanistan was already a devastated country.
After September 11th, as it became apparent that the United States would bomb Afghanistan, an open letter written by an Afghan appeared on the Internet.
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