The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The 'Kite Runner' of Khaled Hosseini's book is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11 year old with 'a face like a Chinese doll' was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys. Narrated by Amir, a 40 year old novelist living in California, 'The Kite Runner' tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. 'The Kite Runner' begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40 year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling. This 2004 Bloomsbury Publishing Paperback is in good condition. Previous owner's name inside.

ISBN: 9780747566533 SKU: 1549205 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.