The Kite Runner

Author: Khaled Hosseini
ISBN: 978-0747566533
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (New edition edition) 2004

Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting toumament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him? Set in 1970s Afghanistan when Hassan is merely a low-caste servant and Amir feels jealous of his natural courage and the place he holds in his father's heart. But neither of the boys could foresee what would happen to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament, which was to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return, to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption. This is an insightful narrative of friendship set against a backdrop of a country struggling to cope with the effects of war.

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