Both historical fiction set in Afghanistan. Quite graphic in some parts.
Kite Runner is a man looking back on his childhood in Afghanistan. His father worked for a wealthy man who had a son his own age. The worker and his son were on a lower social class than the employer and his son.
A Thousand Splendid Suns is about a family in the midst of the beginning of the turmoil that started in the '90's in Afghantistan. One man with two wives. This is mostly about the wives and their children.
