A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Condition:Well Read Publication Date: 17 Dec 1989

Publication Date: 17 Dec 1989

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1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him

A fairy tale character meets his first girlfriend after a gap of many years

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Condition:Well Read Publication Date: 17 Dec 1989A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight year old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together. A