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The tragic timeliness of “A Thousand Splendid Suns”
An opera adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel arrives almost two years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan
A FEW YEARS ago the Seattle Opera approached Roya Sadat to direct a new production. This was slightly unusual: the Afghan film-maker had never seen an opera. Then again, she had not been to the cinema before she made her first film. She was brought up in Herat, her country’s third-biggest city, under Taliban rule and all entertainment venues were closed.
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