The Kite Runner

For those readers out there, get your hands on "The Kite Runner", by Khaled Hosseini . It's an intense, character-driven book set in Afghanistan, spanning about 30 years or so. I don't want to give too much away, but the book is very well written, and full of major and minor life lessons that are dispensed in the form of the narrator's personal mistakes and his coming to terms with his own past, and it is done without being too preachy. Very well-balanced book, overall.