Afghanistan meets the Amazon: Reading The Kite Runner in America

PMLA

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Aubry, Timothy ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 65849255481     PISSN: 00308129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1632/pmla.2009.124.1.25     Document Type: Review

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