The Kite Runner review " loses its grip on Khaled Hosseini's engaging tale
Wyndham's, LondonMatthew Spangler's workmanlike adaptation of the bestselling novel about Afghanistan does a decent job but reduces it to a series of chronological eventsIt's an old problem: how do you adapt a novel for the stage? It is especially acute in the case of Khaled Hosseini's bestseller, which interweaves a personal story of guilt and atonement with a historic portrait of the upheavals in Afghanistan over a…