So I’m reading The Kite Runner and on the front of the paperback, there’s a blurb from Entertainment Weekly which reads: “A moving portrait of modern Afghanistan.”
Now I don’t read EW, but I’d be willing to be that they don’t have a Kabul bureau. And I’d also be willing to bet that the closest that any EW staffer ever got to Afghanistan was probably some place like Paris.
Modern Afghanistan indeed.
