Round 7: Tossup 14

In this novel, a father who asserts that every sin is a variation of theft shocks his son by forgiving a professed (10[1])thief. In this novel, (10[1])a (10[1])half-German man who resembles John Lennon leads a stoning at a soccer stadium. This (10[1])novel’s author described it as a “father-son story” in contrast to a “mother-daughter story” of its (10[1])follow-up, A Thousand Splendid Suns. (10[2])In this novel, (10[1])the Hazara servant Hassan is revealed to be the (10[1])half-brother (10[1])of the protagonist, (10[1])who returns to his homeland to rescue his nephew Sohrab from the Taliban. For 10 points, name this Khaled Hosseini novel about Amir’s departure and return to Afghanistan. ■END■ (0[2])

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