Thursday, August 16, 2007

KITE RUNNER FAVOURITE FOR SECOND YEAR RUNNING

Khaled Hosseini's bestselling story of a boy growing up in 1970s Kabul, The Kite Runner, has been voted the Reading Group Book of the Year for the second year running.
Published three years ago and lacking the marketing hype provided by the official literary awards, the book has been a slow-burning word-of-mouth success, spending two years in the New York Times bestseller list after an initial sluggish start, eventually selling over 8m copies worldwide





Link here to full story from Guardian Unlimited.
And here for a book club suggestions.
And here for eight reviews................

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