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Zahir Shah rules as the king for the next 40 years and creates a stable country.
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The U.S. recognizes Afghanistan.
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Mohammed Daoud Khan becomes prime minister. New social reforms for women.
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The next that group that comes to power is People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan. names himself president.
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"Usually each neighborhood held its own competition. But that year the tournament was going to be held in my neighborhood. Word had it this was going to be the biggest tournament of the year." (55)
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"Things between Baba and me were already cooling off again." (93)Its important because it is described as the last summer of peace and anonymity, foreshadowing that something will happen.
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Khan sadly dies by a communist coup. one of the members from Afghan Communist Party takes over as president.
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"Fremont, California. 1980s. Baba loved the idea of America"(125)
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"That summer of 1983, I graduated high school at the age of twenty, by far the oldest senior tossing his mortarboard on the football field that day."(131)
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"I finished my first novel, a father son story set in Kabul."(182) This shows how Amir's career as an author just starting off.
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The United States, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Soviet Union guarantee Afghan independence.
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"It was Sanaubar who delivered Hassan's son that winter of 1990"(211)
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"We'd been waiting for this call all day: It was Hassan's birthday. Baba got Hassan a plastic surgeon for his birthday.
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"The northern alliance took over different parts of Kabul."(199) Amir learns this from Rahim Khan when he goes back to Afghanistan.
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executes Najibullah. Battle between the Taliban and ethnic groups from the north for control of the country.
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"I have to go to Pakistan. Rahim Khan is very sick."(191) This is significant because this is when Amir can atone for his sins.
