kiss from a rose came out in july 1994.
kiss from a rose came out in july 1994.
when did kiss from a rose come out?
july 1994
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the story is set sometime after the september 11 attacks in an unnamed middle eastern country, where younis, a 15-year-old local boy survives an errant u.s. military operation. an international relief agency relocates him to pittsburgh, pennsylvania where he's raised by a foster family with the new name of "jonas" and where he struggles to assimilate. after savagely beating another student who had been bullying him, he is mandated to visit a councilor, who attempts to help him confront his traumatic past. he receives a scholarship and enrolls at the university of pittsburgh, where he meets and falls in love with shakri, a beautiful pre-med student from india. he also begins hanging around with a hard-partying group of exchange students and drinking to the point of blackout. eventually, he is put in contact with rose, the mother of a soldier, christopher, who participated in the attack that killed his family, and who has been missing ever since. jonas tries to help rose come to terms with the loss of her son by describing for her the last hours of his life. but he's awash in conflicting emotions and changes parts of the story, "adding and subtracting, substituting what should have been said for what he fails to remember accurately." as these memories surface, jonas become more and more unstable, drinking to the point of blackout and acting abusively toward shakri, in scenes that are reminiscence of returning soldiers' experiences with posttraumatic stress disorder. eventually, jonas honors the memory of chris by mailing to rose a journal that chris kept while he was deployed. when the package arrives, she is out in her garden planting a new tree ("thinking that she is being overly optimistic, planting a tree at her age") which represents life after years of mourning.
the book of jonas