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http://www.randomhouse.com/images/dyn/cover/?source=9781426202124&height=300&maxwidth=170 The story of John Bul Dau’s childhood and early adulthood could be summarized by this prophesy: “This will be a black-haired time.” Which means: None of the people in Sudan will live long enough to have gray hair.
It’s easy to turn off the news and lose interest in story after story of death and destruction in other parts of the world. We are inundated with images and stories about terrible pain and suffering all the time, and can become somewhat desensitized to it.
Reading God Grew Tired of Us cuts through any desensitization and brings those feelings of sorrow and happiness, of pain and love, back into focus again.
When he was just a boy, John Bul Dau’s village in southern Sudan was attacked by military forces from the north. He ran from his life one morning, and spent the next two decades on the move, always trying to stay one step ahead of the death and destruction plaguing his homeland. He wasn’t always successful.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns/
Kite Runner

Double book exploration

Book Exploration
By Chuck Bowen

In his first novel The Kite Runner, and now A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini writes about the Afghans caught in the middle of a seemingly endless string of wars and battles for power. Both novels paint a grim and moving picture of life in a war-torn country, and of lives lived in the face of hunger, death and a bleak future. Hosseini makes you realize that, even while bombs rain down and people are dying of hunger, people still fall in love, seek friends and, mostly, try to remain human.